Melanesia vs Western Africa: Tree-covered areas β Area from MODIS
Tree-covered areas β Area from MODIS over time
- Melanesia
- Western Africa
How they compare
Western Africa currently reports 96,460 1000 ha against 50,572 1000 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 45,888 1000 ha.
That makes Western Africa's figure about 1.9 times Melanesia's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Western Africa has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 18th and Western Africa ranks 13th of 44 regions.
Western Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Western Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 50,249 1000 ha | 102,445 1000 ha | 52,196 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2010s | 50,466 1000 ha | 102,768 1000 ha | 52,303 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2020s | 50,443 1000 ha | 97,839 1000 ha | 47,396 1000 ha | Western Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas β area from modis, Melanesia or Western Africa?
- Western Africa, at 96,460 1000 ha against 50,572 1000 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas β area from modis between Melanesia and Western Africa?
- 45,888 1000 ha, with Western Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Western Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Western Africa rank globally for tree-covered areas β area from modis?
- Melanesia ranks 18th and Western Africa ranks 13th of 44 regions.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Tree-covered areas β 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 UniversitΓ© 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.