Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 81,273 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Southern Asia, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Southern Asia recorded 81,273 1000 ha for tree-covered areas — area from modis in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.9% on the previous year and up 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from modis in Southern Asia peaked at 81,273 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 73,971 1000 ha, in 2003.
That places Southern Asia 17th out of 26 groups 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 Southern Asia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 74,320 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 76,044 1000 ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 73,971 1000 ha | -2.7% |
| 2004 | 75,276 1000 ha | +1.8% |
| 2005 | 75,608 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 75,750 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 76,731 1000 ha | +1.3% |
| 2008 | 77,283 1000 ha | +0.7% |
| 2009 | 76,098 1000 ha | -1.5% |
| 2010 | 75,908 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2011 | 76,905 1000 ha | +1.3% |
| 2012 | 76,928 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 78,639 1000 ha | +2.2% |
| 2014 | 78,846 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 78,813 1000 ha | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 78,424 1000 ha | -0.5% |
| 2017 | 78,518 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 78,692 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 78,926 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 80,530 1000 ha | +2.0% |
| 2021 | 80,626 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 78,828 1000 ha | -2.2% |
| 2023 | 79,784 1000 ha | +1.2% |
| 2024 | 81,273 1000 ha | +1.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 75,676 1000 ha | 73,971 1000 ha | 77,283 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 78,060 1000 ha | 75,908 1000 ha | 78,926 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 80,208 1000 ha | 78,828 1000 ha | 81,273 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Asia
- 14 Central African Republic 57,865 1000 ha compare
- 14 Polynesia 555.2 1000 ha compare
- 15 India 56,132 1000 ha compare
- 15 Republic of Moldova 282.03 1000 ha compare
- 16 Mozambique 55,386 1000 ha compare
- 16 Syrian Arab Republic 149.14 1000 ha compare
- 17 Zambia 50,061 1000 ha compare
- 17 Micronesia 131.33 1000 ha compare
- 18 Micronesia (Federated States of) 44.1 1000 ha compare
- 18 Myanmar 47,198 1000 ha compare
- 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
More environment data for Southern Asia
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 0.4009 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 6.69 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.274 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.44 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 15.39 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 8.45 million t (2024)
- Paper and paperboard — Production 24.03 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Production 18.27 million t (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per area of cropland 44.63 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from modis in Southern Asia?
- Tree-covered areas — area from modis in Southern Asia was 81,273 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 Southern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 81,273 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 73,971 1000 ha in 2003.
- How does Southern Asia rank for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Southern Asia ranks 17th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Southern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Asia 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.