Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Mauritius
Mauritius: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 89.97 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Mauritius, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Mauritius recorded 89.97 1000 ha for tree-covered areas — area from modis in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
The figure is up 3.9% on the previous year and up 14.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from modis in Mauritius peaked at 89.97 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 63.27 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Mauritius 162nd out of 240 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 72.46 1000 ha | 63.27 1000 ha | 81.14 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 82.42 1000 ha | 78.75 1000 ha | 86.5 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 87.26 1000 ha | 84.95 1000 ha | 89.97 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mauritius
- 159 Lebanon 109.56 1000 ha compare
- 160 Guadeloupe 97.14 1000 ha compare
- 161 Sao Tome and Principe 94.69 1000 ha compare
- 163 Greenland 83.15 1000 ha compare
- 164 Dominica 69.95 1000 ha compare
- 165 China, Hong Kong SAR 66.41 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Mauritius
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 25.43 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 19 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 1 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 3.5 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 8.57 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 7 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 5.02 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 4.1 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 86.41 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 70.62 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from modis in Mauritius?
- Tree-covered areas — area from modis in Mauritius was 89.97 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 Mauritius?
- The highest recorded value was 89.97 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Mauritius?
- The lowest recorded value was 63.27 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Mauritius rank for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Mauritius ranks 162nd out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Mauritius?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mauritius 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.