Mexico vs United States of America: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Mexico
79,404 1000 ha
in 2024
United States of America
342,923 1000 ha
in 2024
Mexico rank
10th
United States of America rank
9th

Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Mexico
  • United States of America
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How they compare

United States of America currently reports 342,923 1000 ha against 79,404 1000 ha in Mexico, a difference of 263,519 1000 ha.

That makes United States of America's figure about 4.3 times Mexico's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, United States of America has been ahead every year.

Mexico ranks 10th and United States of America ranks 9th of 223 countries.

United States of America has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Mexico United States of America Difference Ahead
2000s 79,857 1000 ha 341,526 1000 ha 261,669 1000 ha United States of America
2010s 82,351 1000 ha 340,340 1000 ha 257,988 1000 ha United States of America
2020s 80,884 1000 ha 342,377 1000 ha 261,492 1000 ha United States of America

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Mexico or United States of America?
United States of America, at 342,923 1000 ha against 79,404 1000 ha in Mexico as of 2024.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Mexico and United States of America?
263,519 1000 ha, with United States of America ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Mexico and United States of America?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Mexico and United States of America rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
Mexico ranks 10th and United States of America ranks 9th of 223 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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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.