South Sudan vs Western Asia: Tree-covered areas β€” Area from MODIS

South Sudan
37,531 1000 ha
in 2024
Western Asia
21,892 1000 ha
in 2024
South Sudan rank
21st
Western Asia rank
22nd

Tree-covered areas β€” Area from MODIS over time

  • South Sudan
  • Western Asia
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k200120122024

How they compare

South Sudan currently reports 37,531 1000 ha against 21,892 1000 ha in Western Asia, a difference of 15,639 1000 ha.

That makes South Sudan's figure about 1.7 times Western Asia's.

Across all 13 years both countries report, South Sudan has been ahead every year.

South Sudan ranks 21st and Western Asia ranks 22nd of 218 countries.

South Sudan has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade South Sudan Western Asia Difference Ahead
2010s 33,767 1000 ha 20,349 1000 ha 13,417 1000 ha South Sudan
2020s 36,754 1000 ha 21,549 1000 ha 15,205 1000 ha South Sudan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas β€” area from modis, South Sudan or Western Asia?
South Sudan, at 37,531 1000 ha against 21,892 1000 ha in Western Asia as of 2024.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas β€” area from modis between South Sudan and Western Asia?
15,639 1000 ha, with South Sudan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for South Sudan and Western Asia?
13 years are reported by both, from 2012 to 2024.
How do South Sudan and Western Asia rank globally for tree-covered areas β€” area from modis?
South Sudan ranks 21st and Western Asia ranks 22nd of 218 countries.
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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

South Sudan vs Western Asia: Tree-covered areas β€” Area from MODIS. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 19 August 2026, from https://environment.statizoid.com/compare/tree-covered-areas-area-from-modis/south-sudan/western-asia/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://environment.statizoid.com/compare/tree-covered-areas-area-from-modis/south-sudan/western-asia/">South Sudan vs Western Asia: Tree-covered areas β€” Area from MODIS</a> β€” Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Tree-covered areas β€” 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 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.