India vs Western Asia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS

India
7,709 1000 ha
in 2024
Western Asia
18,392 1000 ha
in 2024
India rank
17th
Western Asia rank
17th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • India
  • Western Asia
05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k200120122024

How they compare

Western Asia currently reports 18,392 1000 ha against 7,709 1000 ha in India, a difference of 10,683 1000 ha.

That makes Western Asia's figure about 2.4 times India's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Western Asia has been ahead every year.

India ranks 17th and Western Asia ranks 17th of 240 countries.

Western Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade India Western Asia Difference Ahead
2000s 11,671 1000 ha 15,813 1000 ha 4,142 1000 ha Western Asia
2010s 9,359 1000 ha 14,988 1000 ha 5,629 1000 ha Western Asia
2020s 8,993 1000 ha 18,747 1000 ha 9,755 1000 ha Western Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, India or Western Asia?
Western Asia, at 18,392 1000 ha against 7,709 1000 ha in India as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between India and Western Asia?
10,683 1000 ha, with Western Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for India and Western Asia?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do India and Western Asia rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
India ranks 17th and Western Asia ranks 17th of 240 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

Indicator
Shrub-covered areas — 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.