Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Palau
Palau: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 28.81 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Palau, 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 Palau is 28.81 1000 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 2.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from modis in Palau peaked at 29.63 1000 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 24.82 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Palau 161st out of 223 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.
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Palau, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 24.82 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 27.62 1000 ha | +11.3% |
| 2003 | 27.81 1000 ha | +0.7% |
| 2004 | 27.92 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 28.04 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 27.94 1000 ha | -0.4% |
| 2007 | 28 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 28.04 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 28.07 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 27.38 1000 ha | -2.5% |
| 2011 | 27.34 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 27.7 1000 ha | +1.3% |
| 2013 | 28.26 1000 ha | +2.0% |
| 2014 | 28.13 1000 ha | -0.5% |
| 2015 | 28.66 1000 ha | +1.9% |
| 2016 | 28.73 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 28.83 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 28.88 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 29.35 1000 ha | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 29.63 1000 ha | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 29.2 1000 ha | -1.5% |
| 2022 | 28.77 1000 ha | -1.5% |
| 2023 | 28.88 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 28.81 1000 ha | -0.2% |
Palau compared with similar countries
- Palau's 28.81 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 456.91 1000 ha, 6% of the median. (73 countries reporting)
- Palau's 28.81 1000 ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 1,717 1000 ha, 2% of the median. (27 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 27.58 1000 ha | 24.82 1000 ha | 28.07 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 28.33 1000 ha | 27.34 1000 ha | 29.35 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 29.06 1000 ha | 28.77 1000 ha | 29.63 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Palau
More environment data for Palau
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 14.18 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.167 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.05 °C (2025)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 5 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 53.49 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.13 ha/cap (2024)
- Arable land — Area 0.3 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 6.98 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 2 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from modis in Palau?
- Tree-covered areas — area from modis in Palau was 28.81 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 Palau?
- The highest recorded value was 29.63 1000 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Palau?
- The lowest recorded value was 24.82 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Palau rank for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Palau ranks 161st out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Palau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Palau 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.