Lesotho vs Western Sahara: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Lesotho
- Western Sahara
How they compare
Western Sahara currently reports 61.18 1000 ha against 55.8 1000 ha in Lesotho, a difference of 5.38 1000 ha.
That makes Western Sahara's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Lesotho ahead.
Lesotho ranks 66th and Western Sahara ranks 64th of 240 countries.
Lesotho has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Lesotho | Western Sahara | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 154.89 1000 ha | 25.09 1000 ha | 129.81 1000 ha | Lesotho |
| 2010s | 227.57 1000 ha | 56.13 1000 ha | 171.44 1000 ha | Lesotho |
| 2020s | 121.91 1000 ha | 57.85 1000 ha | 64.06 1000 ha | Lesotho |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Lesotho or Western Sahara?
- Western Sahara, at 61.18 1000 ha against 55.8 1000 ha in Lesotho as of 2024.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Lesotho and Western Sahara?
- 5.38 1000 ha, with Western Sahara ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Lesotho and Western Sahara?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Lesotho and Western Sahara rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Lesotho ranks 66th and Western Sahara ranks 64th 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
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.