Papua New Guinea vs Southern Africa: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Papua New Guinea
- Southern Africa
How they compare
Papua New Guinea currently reports 43,688 1000 ha against 10,333 1000 ha in Southern Africa, a difference of 33,355 1000 ha.
That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 4.2 times Southern Africa's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Papua New Guinea has been ahead every year.
Papua New Guinea ranks 19th and Southern Africa ranks 23rd of 223 countries.
Papua New Guinea has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Papua New Guinea | Southern Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 43,496 1000 ha | 8,539 1000 ha | 34,958 1000 ha | Papua New Guinea |
| 2010s | 43,616 1000 ha | 9,152 1000 ha | 34,463 1000 ha | Papua New Guinea |
| 2020s | 43,575 1000 ha | 9,682 1000 ha | 33,894 1000 ha | Papua New Guinea |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Papua New Guinea or Southern Africa?
- Papua New Guinea, at 43,688 1000 ha against 10,333 1000 ha in Southern Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Papua New Guinea and Southern Africa?
- 33,355 1000 ha, with Papua New Guinea ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Papua New Guinea and Southern Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Papua New Guinea and Southern Africa rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 19th and Southern Africa ranks 23rd 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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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.