Morocco vs Northern Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Morocco
11,159 1000 ha
in 2024
Northern Africa
26,352 1000 ha
in 2024
Morocco rank
13th
Northern Africa rank
11th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Morocco
  • Northern Africa
10.0k15.0k20.0k25.0k200120122024

How they compare

Northern Africa currently reports 26,352 1000 ha against 11,159 1000 ha in Morocco, a difference of 15,193 1000 ha.

That makes Northern Africa's figure about 2.4 times Morocco's.

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

Morocco ranks 13th and Northern Africa ranks 11th of 218 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Morocco Northern Africa Difference Ahead
2000s 9,994 1000 ha 23,425 1000 ha 13,431 1000 ha Northern Africa
2010s 10,149 1000 ha 25,399 1000 ha 15,250 1000 ha Northern Africa
2020s 10,630 1000 ha 25,999 1000 ha 15,369 1000 ha Northern Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Morocco or Northern Africa?
Northern Africa, at 26,352 1000 ha against 11,159 1000 ha in Morocco as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Morocco and Northern Africa?
15,193 1000 ha, with Northern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Morocco and Northern Africa?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Morocco and Northern Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
Morocco ranks 13th and Northern Africa ranks 11th 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

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.