Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Caribbean
Caribbean: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 15,754 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Caribbean, 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 Caribbean is 15,754 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.6% on the previous year and up 2.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from modis in Caribbean peaked at 15,754 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 14,309 1000 ha, in 2001.
Caribbean ranks 48th of 240 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 14,937 1000 ha | 14,309 1000 ha | 15,363 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 15,466 1000 ha | 15,318 1000 ha | 15,726 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,665 1000 ha | 15,514 1000 ha | 15,754 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
More environment data for Caribbean
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 57.71 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 2.16 g/Int$ (2024)
- Country area — Area 33,179 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area — Area 22,277 1000 ha (2024)
- Agriculture — Area 11,108 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Area 11,507 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 51.65 % (2024)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 1,207 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area 6,641 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 4,866 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from modis in Caribbean?
- Tree-covered areas — area from modis in Caribbean was 15,754 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 Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 15,754 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,309 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Caribbean rank for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Caribbean ranks 48th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean 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.