India vs Southern Asia: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- India
- Southern Asia
How they compare
Southern Asia currently reports 81,273 1000 ha against 56,132 1000 ha in India, a difference of 25,141 1000 ha.
That makes Southern Asia's figure about 1.4 times India's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Southern Asia has been ahead every year.
India ranks 17th and Southern Asia ranks 19th of 240 countries.
Southern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Southern Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 51,842 1000 ha | 75,676 1000 ha | 23,834 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2010s | 53,990 1000 ha | 78,060 1000 ha | 24,070 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2020s | 55,434 1000 ha | 80,208 1000 ha | 24,774 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, India or Southern Asia?
- Southern Asia, at 81,273 1000 ha against 56,132 1000 ha in India as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between India and Southern Asia?
- 25,141 1000 ha, with Southern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Southern Asia?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do India and Southern Asia rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- India ranks 17th and Southern Asia ranks 19th 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
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.