Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Africa
Africa: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC was 757,448 1000 ha in 2022. ▬ Flat
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Africa, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Africa recorded 757,448 1000 ha for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Africa peaked at 757,448 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 741,025 1000 ha, in 1999.
Africa ranks 6th of 29 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 745,066 1000 ha | 741,025 1000 ha | 746,791 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 744,832 1000 ha | 741,301 1000 ha | 748,829 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 750,092 1000 ha | 747,571 1000 ha | 755,528 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 756,594 1000 ha | 755,577 1000 ha | 757,448 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Africa
- 3 Canada 436,843 1000 ha compare
- 4 China 188,821 1000 ha compare
- 5 China, mainland 186,559 1000 ha compare
- 6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 185,074 1000 ha compare
- 7 Indonesia 117,641 1000 ha compare
- 8 Australia and New Zealand 84,171 1000 ha compare
- 9 Peru 81,843 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Africa
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 359.84 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Arable land — Area 266,831 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.21 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 10.45 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 26.39 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 312,792 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Area 1.19 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area — Area 2.99 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Agriculture — Area 1.19 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 22.51 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Africa?
- Tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Africa was 757,448 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 757,448 1000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 741,025 1000 ha in 1999.
- How does Africa rank for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Africa ranks 6th out of 29 groups with data for 2022.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC. 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.