Antarctica vs Botswana: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Antarctica
273.1 1000 ha
in 2024
Botswana
200.38 1000 ha
in 2024
Antarctica rank
59th
Botswana rank
62nd

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

  • Antarctica
  • Botswana
200400600800200120122024

How they compare

Antarctica currently reports 273.1 1000 ha against 200.38 1000 ha in Botswana, a difference of 72.72 1000 ha.

That makes Antarctica's figure about 1.4 times Botswana's.

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

Antarctica ranks 59th and Botswana ranks 62nd of 240 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Antarctica Botswana Difference Ahead
2000s 388.65 1000 ha 267.18 1000 ha 121.48 1000 ha Antarctica
2010s 307 1000 ha 201.63 1000 ha 105.37 1000 ha Antarctica
2020s 267.75 1000 ha 177.41 1000 ha 90.34 1000 ha Antarctica

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Antarctica or Botswana?
Antarctica, at 273.1 1000 ha against 200.38 1000 ha in Botswana as of 2024.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Antarctica and Botswana?
72.72 1000 ha, with Antarctica ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Antarctica and Botswana?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Antarctica and Botswana rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Antarctica ranks 59th and Botswana ranks 62nd of 240 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Terrestrial barren land — 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
Terrestrial barren land — 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.