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

Morocco
11,159 1000 ha
in 2024
South Africa
46,474 1000 ha
in 2024
Morocco rank
13th
South Africa rank
6th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Morocco
  • South Africa
10.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k50.0k200120122024

How they compare

South Africa currently reports 46,474 1000 ha against 11,159 1000 ha in Morocco, a difference of 35,315 1000 ha.

That makes South Africa's figure about 4.2 times Morocco's.

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

Morocco ranks 13th and South Africa ranks 6th of 218 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Morocco South Africa Difference Ahead
2000s 9,994 1000 ha 48,292 1000 ha 38,298 1000 ha South Africa
2010s 10,149 1000 ha 47,977 1000 ha 37,828 1000 ha South Africa
2020s 10,630 1000 ha 45,241 1000 ha 34,611 1000 ha South Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Morocco or South Africa?
South Africa, at 46,474 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 South Africa?
35,315 1000 ha, with South Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Morocco and South Africa?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Morocco and South Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
Morocco ranks 13th and South Africa ranks 6th 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.