Australia vs South America: Grassland — Area from MODIS
Grassland — Area from MODIS over time
- Australia
- South America
How they compare
South America currently reports 380,334 1000 ha against 207,497 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 172,837 1000 ha.
That makes South America's figure about 1.8 times Australia's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 6th and South America ranks 6th of 240 countries.
South America has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | South America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 188,603 1000 ha | 365,281 1000 ha | 176,678 1000 ha | South America |
| 2010s | 186,538 1000 ha | 373,822 1000 ha | 187,284 1000 ha | South America |
| 2020s | 190,753 1000 ha | 384,091 1000 ha | 193,338 1000 ha | South America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher grassland — area from modis, Australia or South America?
- South America, at 380,334 1000 ha against 207,497 1000 ha in Australia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in grassland — area from modis between Australia and South America?
- 172,837 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and South America?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Australia and South America rank globally for grassland — area from modis?
- Australia ranks 6th and South America ranks 6th 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
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.