Colombia vs Mexico: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Colombia
101,965 1000 ha
in 2024
Mexico
79,404 1000 ha
in 2024
Colombia rank
8th
Mexico rank
11th

Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Colombia
  • Mexico
025.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k200120122024

How they compare

Colombia currently reports 101,965 1000 ha against 79,404 1000 ha in Mexico, a difference of 22,561 1000 ha.

That makes Colombia's figure about 1.3 times Mexico's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Colombia has been ahead every year.

Colombia ranks 8th and Mexico ranks 11th of 240 countries.

Colombia has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Colombia Mexico Difference Ahead
2000s 101,377 1000 ha 79,857 1000 ha 21,519 1000 ha Colombia
2010s 101,027 1000 ha 82,351 1000 ha 18,675 1000 ha Colombia
2020s 100,744 1000 ha 80,884 1000 ha 19,860 1000 ha Colombia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Colombia or Mexico?
Colombia, at 101,965 1000 ha against 79,404 1000 ha in Mexico as of 2024.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Colombia and Mexico?
22,561 1000 ha, with Colombia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Colombia and Mexico?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Colombia and Mexico rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
Colombia ranks 8th and Mexico ranks 11th of 240 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.