Americas vs Australia and New Zealand: Grassland — Area from MODIS

Americas
933,931 1000 ha
in 2024
Australia and New Zealand
217,264 1000 ha
in 2024
Americas rank
2nd
Australia and New Zealand rank
5th

Grassland — Area from MODIS over time

  • Americas
  • Australia and New Zealand
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How they compare

Americas currently reports 933,931 1000 ha against 217,264 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 716,667 1000 ha.

That makes Americas's figure about 4.3 times Australia and New Zealand's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.

Americas ranks 2nd and Australia and New Zealand ranks 5th of 26 groups.

Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Americas Australia and New Zealand Difference Ahead
2000s 909,939 1000 ha 198,014 1000 ha 711,925 1000 ha Americas
2010s 927,522 1000 ha 195,447 1000 ha 732,075 1000 ha Americas
2020s 938,783 1000 ha 200,350 1000 ha 738,434 1000 ha Americas

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher grassland — area from modis, Americas or Australia and New Zealand?
Americas, at 933,931 1000 ha against 217,264 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand as of 2024.
What is the difference in grassland — area from modis between Americas and Australia and New Zealand?
716,667 1000 ha, with Americas ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Australia and New Zealand?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Americas and Australia and New Zealand rank globally for grassland — area from modis?
Americas ranks 2nd and Australia and New Zealand ranks 5th of 26 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Grassland — Area from MODIS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Grassland — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
Last refreshed

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.