Brazil vs South America: Grassland — Area from MODIS

Brazil
187,113 1000 ha
in 2024
South America
380,334 1000 ha
in 2024
Brazil rank
8th
South America rank
6th

Grassland — Area from MODIS over time

  • Brazil
  • South America
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How they compare

South America currently reports 380,334 1000 ha against 187,113 1000 ha in Brazil, a difference of 193,221 1000 ha.

That makes South America's figure about 2.0 times Brazil's.

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

Brazil ranks 8th 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 Brazil South America Difference Ahead
2000s 175,104 1000 ha 365,281 1000 ha 190,177 1000 ha South America
2010s 181,185 1000 ha 373,822 1000 ha 192,637 1000 ha South America
2020s 188,533 1000 ha 384,091 1000 ha 195,558 1000 ha South America

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher grassland — area from modis, Brazil or South America?
South America, at 380,334 1000 ha against 187,113 1000 ha in Brazil as of 2024.
What is the difference in grassland — area from modis between Brazil and South America?
193,221 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and South America?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Brazil and South America rank globally for grassland — area from modis?
Brazil ranks 8th 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

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.