Country comparison
Spain vs Venezuela
Averaged across every city Airleaf has measured in each country — 57 in Spain and 57 in Venezuela — each read the same way: Sentinel-2 imagery at 10 m detail over a 2 km radius, and the live US EPA air quality index.
Venezuela averages more tree cover — 37.0% against 18.6%.
Venezuela averages cleaner air — AQI 32 against 39.
- Tree cover gap
- 18.4 points
- Venezuela is ahead.
- Air quality gap
- 7 AQI
- Venezuela is cleaner.
- Cities behind it
- 57 vs 57
- How much each average rests on.
Average tree cover
Mean across measured cities, each over the same 2 km radius.
18.6%
37.0%
Average air quality index
US EPA index. Lower is better.
39
32
Cities measured
How much each average rests on.
57
57
Trees still needed
Summed across measured cities, to reach their canopy targets. Fewer is better.
2.1M
808K
Behind the averages
The extremes in each country
An average says nothing about how far apart the best and worst places are. These are the measured cities at each end.
Reading these numbers
What a country average is, and is not
It is a mean of cities
Not a national statistic. Each figure is the average across the cities Airleaf has measured in that country — 57 in Spain and 57 in Venezuela — each read over the same 2 km radius. Rural land, forest and everywhere unmeasured are not in it, so this compares urban areas rather than territories.
Coverage shapes the number
A country measured mostly in its capital reads differently from one measured across dozens of towns. These two rest on the same number of cities, so they are unusually like for like. Both firm up as coverage grows.
Frequently asked
Spain and Venezuela, answered
Which country has more tree cover, Spain or Venezuela?
Venezuela, averaging 37.0% across its measured cities against 18.6% — a gap of 18.4 percentage points.
Which has cleaner air, Spain or Venezuela?
Venezuela, averaging AQI 32 against 39 on the US EPA index. These are live readings averaged across cities, so the gap moves with the weather.
How many cities is each figure based on?
57 measured cities in Spain and 57 in Venezuela. Every one was read the same way, so the two averages are directly comparable — but a country with more measured cities has the more settled figure.
Is this the whole country?
No. It is the cities Airleaf has measured, each over a 2 km radius from its centre. Forest, farmland and unmeasured towns are not included, so treat this as a comparison of urban tree cover and urban air rather than of national land cover.
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