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 22nd of 26 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 14,309 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 14,781 1000 ha | +3.3% |
| 2003 | 14,858 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 14,948 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2005 | 14,697 1000 ha | -1.7% |
| 2006 | 14,933 1000 ha | +1.6% |
| 2007 | 15,191 1000 ha | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 15,363 1000 ha | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 15,351 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 15,318 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2011 | 15,369 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 15,367 1000 ha | -0.0% |
| 2013 | 15,333 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 15,369 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 15,476 1000 ha | +0.7% |
| 2016 | 15,522 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 15,530 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 15,646 1000 ha | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 15,726 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 15,678 1000 ha | -0.3% |
| 2021 | 15,732 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 15,649 1000 ha | -0.5% |
| 2023 | 15,514 1000 ha | -0.9% |
| 2024 | 15,754 1000 ha | +1.6% |
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
- 19 Papua New Guinea 43,688 1000 ha compare
- 20 Cameroon 37,924 1000 ha compare
- 20 Côte d'Ivoire 27,064 1000 ha compare
- 20 Wallis and Futuna Islands 6.09 1000 ha compare
- 21 South Sudan 37,531 1000 ha compare
- 22 Sweden 35,828 1000 ha compare
- 23 Sudan (former) 33,352 1000 ha compare
- 24 Paraguay 30,765 1000 ha compare
- 25 Malaysia 30,122 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Caribbean
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -4.29 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -4.76 Percentage change (2025)
- Temperature change 1.29 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.233 °C (2025)
- Roundwood — Import quantity 152,566 m3 (2024)
- Primary wood and paper products (export/import) — Export value 152,436 1000 USD (2024)
- Roundwood — Production 6.26 million m3 (2024)
- Sawlogs and veneer logs, coniferous — Production 355,073 m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 4.77 million m3 (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 22nd out of 26 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.