Countries historical rural land area per forest area in South America

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This scatter chart displays rural land area (km²) against forest area (km²). The data is from our countries entity and is filtered where the region is South America.

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There are 2 fields used on this chart (including filters):
  • Rural Land Area: Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons. This field is expressed in km².
  • Forest Area: Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens. This field is expressed in km².

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This chart is based on data from: World Bank

Updated: 30 days ago

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