Somalia vs Southern Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Somalia
19,530 1000 ha
in 2024
Southern Africa
115,045 1000 ha
in 2024
Somalia rank
10th
Southern Africa rank
8th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Somalia
  • Southern Africa
25.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k125.0k200120122024

How they compare

Southern Africa currently reports 115,045 1000 ha against 19,530 1000 ha in Somalia, a difference of 95,515 1000 ha.

That makes Southern Africa's figure about 5.9 times Somalia's.

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

Somalia ranks 10th and Southern Africa ranks 8th of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Somalia Southern Africa Difference Ahead
2000s 19,551 1000 ha 112,847 1000 ha 93,296 1000 ha Southern Africa
2010s 18,509 1000 ha 115,559 1000 ha 97,050 1000 ha Southern Africa
2020s 19,659 1000 ha 114,142 1000 ha 94,484 1000 ha Southern Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Somalia or Southern Africa?
Southern Africa, at 115,045 1000 ha against 19,530 1000 ha in Somalia as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Somalia and Southern Africa?
95,515 1000 ha, with Southern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Somalia and Southern Africa?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Somalia and Southern Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
Somalia ranks 10th and Southern Africa ranks 8th 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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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.