How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Iraq?

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.

Australia vs Iraq: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC

Australia

32,055 1000 ha

in 2022

Iraq

32,538 1000 ha

in 2022

Australia rank

21st

Iraq rank

18th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC over time

Australia
Iraq

How they compare

Iraq currently reports 32,538 1000 ha against 32,055 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 483 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 21st and Iraq ranks 18th of 219 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 3 and Iraq in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Australia	Iraq	Difference	Ahead
1990s	36,778 1000 ha	32,163 1000 ha	4,615 1000 ha	Australia
2000s	36,220 1000 ha	32,710 1000 ha	3,511 1000 ha	Australia
2010s	33,743 1000 ha	32,732 1000 ha	1,011 1000 ha	Australia
2020s	32,464 1000 ha	32,548 1000 ha	83.8 1000 ha	Iraq

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc, Australia or Iraq?: Iraq, at 32,538 1000 ha against 32,055 1000 ha in Australia as of 2022.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc between Australia and Iraq?: 483 1000 ha, with Iraq ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Iraq?: 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Australia and Iraq rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc?: Australia ranks 21st and Iraq ranks 18th of 219 countries.
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.