Australia vs Northern America: Grassland — Area from MODIS

Australia
207,497 1000 ha
in 2024
Northern America
501,162 1000 ha
in 2024
Australia rank
6th
Northern America rank
5th

Grassland — Area from MODIS over time

  • Australia
  • Northern America
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How they compare

Northern America currently reports 501,162 1000 ha against 207,497 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 293,665 1000 ha.

That makes Northern America's figure about 2.4 times Australia's.

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

Australia ranks 6th and Northern America ranks 5th of 240 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia Northern America Difference Ahead
2000s 188,603 1000 ha 492,139 1000 ha 303,535 1000 ha Northern America
2010s 186,538 1000 ha 501,582 1000 ha 315,043 1000 ha Northern America
2020s 190,753 1000 ha 501,926 1000 ha 311,174 1000 ha Northern America

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher grassland — area from modis, Australia or Northern America?
Northern America, at 501,162 1000 ha against 207,497 1000 ha in Australia as of 2024.
What is the difference in grassland — area from modis between Australia and Northern America?
293,665 1000 ha, with Northern America ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Northern America?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Australia and Northern America rank globally for grassland — area from modis?
Australia ranks 6th and Northern America ranks 5th of 240 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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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.