Antarctica vs Sri Lanka: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Antarctica
- Sri Lanka
How they compare
Antarctica currently reports 0.5 1000 ha against 0.41 1000 ha in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.09 1000 ha.
That makes Antarctica's figure about 1.2 times Sri Lanka's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Sri Lanka ahead.
Antarctica ranks 109th and Sri Lanka ranks 111th of 218 countries.
Sri Lanka has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Antarctica | Sri Lanka | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.4233 1000 ha | 2.12 1000 ha | 1.69 1000 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 2010s | 0.182 1000 ha | 1.41 1000 ha | 1.22 1000 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 2020s | 0.308 1000 ha | 0.976 1000 ha | 0.668 1000 ha | Sri Lanka |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Antarctica or Sri Lanka?
- Antarctica, at 0.5 1000 ha against 0.41 1000 ha in Sri Lanka as of 2024.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Antarctica and Sri Lanka?
- 0.09 1000 ha, with Antarctica ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Antarctica and Sri Lanka?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Antarctica and Sri Lanka rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Antarctica ranks 109th and Sri Lanka ranks 111th of 218 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — 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.