Sri Lanka vs Switzerland: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Sri Lanka
0.41 1000 ha
in 2024
Switzerland
0.34 1000 ha
in 2024
Sri Lanka rank
121st
Switzerland rank
124th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Sri Lanka
  • Switzerland
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How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 0.41 1000 ha against 0.34 1000 ha in Switzerland, a difference of 0.07 1000 ha.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.2 times Switzerland's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Switzerland ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 121st and Switzerland ranks 124th of 240 countries.

Across the 3 decades both report, Sri Lanka averaged higher in 2 and Switzerland in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Sri Lanka Switzerland Difference Ahead
2000s 2.12 1000 ha 2.47 1000 ha 0.3511 1000 ha Switzerland
2010s 1.41 1000 ha 0.364 1000 ha 1.04 1000 ha Sri Lanka
2020s 0.976 1000 ha 0.238 1000 ha 0.738 1000 ha Sri Lanka

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Sri Lanka or Switzerland?
Sri Lanka, at 0.41 1000 ha against 0.34 1000 ha in Switzerland as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Sri Lanka and Switzerland?
0.07 1000 ha, with Sri Lanka ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Sri Lanka and Switzerland?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Sri Lanka and Switzerland rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
Sri Lanka ranks 121st and Switzerland ranks 124th 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

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.