Northern Africa vs Sweden: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Northern Africa
3,294 1000 ha
in 2024
Sweden
35,828 1000 ha
in 2024
Northern Africa rank
28th
Sweden rank
22nd

Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Northern Africa
  • Sweden
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How they compare

Sweden currently reports 35,828 1000 ha against 3,294 1000 ha in Northern Africa, a difference of 32,534 1000 ha.

That makes Sweden's figure about 10.9 times Northern Africa's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Sweden ahead.

Northern Africa ranks 28th and Sweden ranks 22nd of 44 regions.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Northern Africa Sweden Difference Ahead
2000s 34,968 1000 ha 35,845 1000 ha 877.79 1000 ha Sweden
2010s 9,798 1000 ha 35,702 1000 ha 25,904 1000 ha Sweden
2020s 3,266 1000 ha 35,794 1000 ha 32,527 1000 ha Sweden

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Northern Africa or Sweden?
Sweden, at 35,828 1000 ha against 3,294 1000 ha in Northern Africa as of 2024.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Northern Africa and Sweden?
32,534 1000 ha, with Sweden ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Northern Africa and Sweden?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Northern Africa and Sweden rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
Northern Africa ranks 28th and Sweden ranks 22nd of 44 regions.
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.