Mangroves — Area from MODIS in Americas
Americas: Mangroves — Area from MODIS was 10,302 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Mangroves — Area from MODIS in Americas, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for mangroves — area from modis in Americas is 10,302 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of down 4.4% on the previous year and down 9.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, mangroves — area from modis in Americas peaked at 19,842 1000 ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 10,302 1000 ha, in 2024.
Americas ranks 2nd of 26 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Mangroves — Area from MODIS in Americas, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 19,842 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 13,357 1000 ha | -32.7% |
| 2003 | 11,863 1000 ha | -11.2% |
| 2004 | 11,259 1000 ha | -5.1% |
| 2005 | 10,902 1000 ha | -3.2% |
| 2006 | 11,002 1000 ha | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 11,126 1000 ha | +1.1% |
| 2008 | 11,558 1000 ha | +3.9% |
| 2009 | 11,594 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 11,635 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2011 | 11,606 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2012 | 11,492 1000 ha | -1.0% |
| 2013 | 11,374 1000 ha | -1.0% |
| 2014 | 11,322 1000 ha | -0.5% |
| 2015 | 11,088 1000 ha | -2.1% |
| 2016 | 10,697 1000 ha | -3.5% |
| 2017 | 10,659 1000 ha | -0.4% |
| 2018 | 10,815 1000 ha | +1.5% |
| 2019 | 10,784 1000 ha | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 10,662 1000 ha | -1.1% |
| 2021 | 10,731 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 10,981 1000 ha | +2.3% |
| 2023 | 10,778 1000 ha | -1.8% |
| 2024 | 10,302 1000 ha | -4.4% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Mangroves — Area from MODIS in Americas changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | -32.7% | 19,842 1000 ha | 13,357 1000 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 12,500 1000 ha | 10,902 1000 ha | 19,842 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 11,147 1000 ha | 10,659 1000 ha | 11,635 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,691 1000 ha | 10,302 1000 ha | 10,981 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 1 Indonesia 5,114 1000 ha compare
- 2 Brazil 3,717 1000 ha compare
- 3 Papua New Guinea 1,403 1000 ha compare
- 3 Melanesia 1,763 1000 ha compare
- 4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,095 1000 ha compare
- 4 Australia and New Zealand 1,200 1000 ha compare
- 5 Nigeria 1,147 1000 ha compare
- 5 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 487.34 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Americas
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.95 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.303 °C (2025)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Annual growth US$ 2.72 % (2024)
- Wood fuel, coniferous — Production 78.58 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 263.00 million m3 (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 1.73 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$, 2015 525,862 million USD (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 1.74 % (2024)
- Wood fuel — Production 341.57 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is mangroves — area from modis in Americas?
- Mangroves — area from modis in Americas was 10,302 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest mangroves — area from modis recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 19,842 1000 ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest mangroves — area from modis recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,302 1000 ha in 2024.
- How does Americas rank for mangroves — area from modis?
- Americas ranks 2nd out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is mangroves — area from modis rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Mangroves — Area from MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.