Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Americas
Americas: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 2.09 million 1000 ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Tree-covered areas — 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 tree-covered areas — area from modis in Americas is 2.09 million 1000 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and down 0.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from modis in Americas peaked at 2.12 million 1000 ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 2.08 million 1000 ha, in 2022.
That places Americas 2nd out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2.10 million 1000 ha | 2.09 million 1000 ha | 2.12 million 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 2.10 million 1000 ha | 2.08 million 1000 ha | 2.11 million 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.09 million 1000 ha | 2.08 million 1000 ha | 2.09 million 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 1 Russian Federation 922,274 1000 ha compare
- 2 Brazil 597,725 1000 ha compare
- 3 Canada 501,610 1000 ha compare
- 4 China 270,880 1000 ha compare
- 5 China, mainland 268,203 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Americas
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 14.92 kg/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.36 ha/cap (2024)
- Arable land — Area 347,983 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 31.51 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 16.06 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Agricultural Use 15.65 million t (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 29,878 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Import quantity 19.01 million t (2024)
- Country area — Area 4.65 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per area of cropland 41.48 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from modis in Americas?
- Tree-covered areas — area from modis in Americas was 2.09 million 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 2.12 million 1000 ha in 2002.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.08 million 1000 ha in 2022.
- How does Americas rank for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Americas ranks 2nd out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tree-covered areas — 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.