Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc, Americas or Niger?

Americas, at 105,175 1000 ha against 78,000 1000 ha in Niger as of 2022.

What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc between Americas and Niger?

27,175 1000 ha, with Americas ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Niger?

31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.

Where does this data come from?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Americas vs Niger: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC

Americas

105,175 1000 ha

in 2022

Niger

78,000 1000 ha

in 2022

Americas rank

9th

Niger rank

11th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC over time

Americas
Niger

How they compare

Americas currently reports 105,175 1000 ha against 78,000 1000 ha in Niger, a difference of 27,175 1000 ha.

That makes Americas's figure about 1.3 times Niger's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.

Americas ranks 9th and Niger ranks 11th of 29 groups.

Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Americas	Niger	Difference	Ahead
1990s	107,346 1000 ha	80,515 1000 ha	26,831 1000 ha	Americas
2000s	108,062 1000 ha	80,325 1000 ha	27,737 1000 ha	Americas
2010s	107,633 1000 ha	79,289 1000 ha	28,344 1000 ha	Americas
2020s	105,415 1000 ha	78,209 1000 ha	27,206 1000 ha	Americas

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc, Americas or Niger?: Americas, at 105,175 1000 ha against 78,000 1000 ha in Niger as of 2022.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc between Americas and Niger?: 27,175 1000 ha, with Americas ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Niger?: 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Americas and Niger rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc?: Americas ranks 9th and Niger ranks 11th of 29 groups.
Where does this data come from?: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC
Unit: 1000 ha
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed: 12 August 2026

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.