Eritrea vs United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Grassland — Area from MODIS

Eritrea
4,834 1000 ha
in 2024
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4,568 1000 ha
in 2024
Eritrea rank
52nd
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rank
55th

Grassland — Area from MODIS over time

  • Eritrea
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
02.0k4.0k6.0k200120122024

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 4,834 1000 ha against 4,568 1000 ha in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a difference of 266 1000 ha.

That makes Eritrea's figure about 1.1 times United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Eritrea ahead.

Eritrea ranks 52nd and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ranks 55th of 223 countries.

Across the 3 decades both report, Eritrea averaged higher in 1 and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Eritrea United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Difference Ahead
2000s 4,332 1000 ha 4,031 1000 ha 301.01 1000 ha Eritrea
2010s 4,213 1000 ha 4,696 1000 ha 483.58 1000 ha United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2020s 4,629 1000 ha 4,865 1000 ha 235.55 1000 ha United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher grassland — area from modis, Eritrea or United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
Eritrea, at 4,834 1000 ha against 4,568 1000 ha in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as of 2024.
What is the difference in grassland — area from modis between Eritrea and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
266 1000 ha, with Eritrea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eritrea and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Eritrea and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rank globally for grassland — area from modis?
Eritrea ranks 52nd and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ranks 55th 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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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.