Madagascar vs Northern Africa: Grassland — Area from MODIS

Madagascar
40,125 1000 ha
in 2024
Northern Africa
77,686 1000 ha
in 2024
Madagascar rank
19th
Northern Africa rank
18th

Grassland — Area from MODIS over time

  • Madagascar
  • Northern Africa
40.0k60.0k80.0k100.0k200120122024

How they compare

Northern Africa currently reports 77,686 1000 ha against 40,125 1000 ha in Madagascar, a difference of 37,561 1000 ha.

That makes Northern Africa's figure about 1.9 times Madagascar's.

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

Madagascar ranks 19th and Northern Africa ranks 18th of 240 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Madagascar Northern Africa Difference Ahead
2000s 36,914 1000 ha 104,474 1000 ha 67,560 1000 ha Northern Africa
2010s 38,289 1000 ha 83,338 1000 ha 45,048 1000 ha Northern Africa
2020s 39,619 1000 ha 77,628 1000 ha 38,009 1000 ha Northern Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher grassland — area from modis, Madagascar or Northern Africa?
Northern Africa, at 77,686 1000 ha against 40,125 1000 ha in Madagascar as of 2024.
What is the difference in grassland — area from modis between Madagascar and Northern Africa?
37,561 1000 ha, with Northern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Madagascar and Northern Africa?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Madagascar and Northern Africa rank globally for grassland — area from modis?
Madagascar ranks 19th and Northern Africa ranks 18th 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.