United States of America vs Yemen: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC

United States of America
18,539 1000 ha
in 2022
Yemen
35,398 1000 ha
in 2022
United States of America rank
16th
Yemen rank
15th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • United States of America
  • Yemen
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k199220072022

How they compare

Yemen currently reports 35,398 1000 ha against 18,539 1000 ha in United States of America, a difference of 16,859 1000 ha.

That makes Yemen's figure about 1.9 times United States of America's.

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

United States of America ranks 16th and Yemen ranks 15th of 26 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade United States of America Yemen Difference Ahead
1990s 18,276 1000 ha 35,807 1000 ha 17,531 1000 ha Yemen
2000s 18,334 1000 ha 35,846 1000 ha 17,512 1000 ha Yemen
2010s 18,450 1000 ha 35,797 1000 ha 17,347 1000 ha Yemen
2020s 18,523 1000 ha 35,490 1000 ha 16,967 1000 ha Yemen

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc, United States of America or Yemen?
Yemen, at 35,398 1000 ha against 18,539 1000 ha in United States of America as of 2022.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc between United States of America and Yemen?
16,859 1000 ha, with Yemen ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for United States of America and Yemen?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do United States of America and Yemen rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from cci_lc?
United States of America ranks 16th and Yemen ranks 15th of 26 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

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.