Antarctica vs Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha: Grassland — Area from MODIS

Antarctica
9.74 1000 ha
in 2024
Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha
10.38 1000 ha
in 2024
Antarctica rank
179th
Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha rank
177th

Grassland — Area from MODIS over time

  • Antarctica
  • Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha
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How they compare

Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha currently reports 10.38 1000 ha against 9.74 1000 ha in Antarctica, a difference of 0.64 1000 ha.

That makes Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha's figure about 1.1 times Antarctica's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha ahead.

Antarctica ranks 179th and Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha ranks 177th of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Antarctica Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha Difference Ahead
2000s 9.58 1000 ha 7.01 1000 ha 2.57 1000 ha Antarctica
2010s 24.65 1000 ha 8.25 1000 ha 16.4 1000 ha Antarctica
2020s 11.05 1000 ha 9.44 1000 ha 1.61 1000 ha Antarctica

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher grassland — area from modis, Antarctica or Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha?
Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha, at 10.38 1000 ha against 9.74 1000 ha in Antarctica as of 2024.
What is the difference in grassland — area from modis between Antarctica and Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha?
0.64 1000 ha, with Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Antarctica and Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Antarctica and Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha rank globally for grassland — area from modis?
Antarctica ranks 179th and Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha ranks 177th of 223 countries.
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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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
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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.