Saudi Arabia vs Western Asia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Saudi Arabia
- Western Asia
How they compare
Western Asia currently reports 18,392 1000 ha against 4,375 1000 ha in Saudi Arabia, a difference of 14,017 1000 ha.
That makes Western Asia's figure about 4.2 times Saudi Arabia's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Western Asia has been ahead every year.
Saudi Arabia ranks 19th and Western Asia ranks 15th of 223 countries.
Western Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Saudi Arabia | Western Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3,139 1000 ha | 15,813 1000 ha | 12,674 1000 ha | Western Asia |
| 2010s | 3,061 1000 ha | 14,988 1000 ha | 11,927 1000 ha | Western Asia |
| 2020s | 3,967 1000 ha | 18,747 1000 ha | 14,780 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, Saudi Arabia or Western Asia?
- Western Asia, at 18,392 1000 ha against 4,375 1000 ha in Saudi Arabia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Saudi Arabia and Western Asia?
- 14,017 1000 ha, with Western Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Saudi Arabia and Western Asia?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Saudi Arabia and Western Asia rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Saudi Arabia ranks 19th and Western Asia ranks 15th of 223 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.