Antarctica vs Spain: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Antarctica
273.1 1000 ha
in 2024
Spain
278.26 1000 ha
in 2024
Antarctica rank
59th
Spain rank
58th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

  • Antarctica
  • Spain
200400600800200120122024

How they compare

Spain currently reports 278.26 1000 ha against 273.1 1000 ha in Antarctica, a difference of 5.16 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Antarctica ahead.

Antarctica ranks 59th and Spain ranks 58th of 240 countries.

Across the 3 decades both report, Antarctica averaged higher in 2 and Spain in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Antarctica Spain Difference Ahead
2000s 388.65 1000 ha 276.09 1000 ha 112.56 1000 ha Antarctica
2010s 307 1000 ha 256.33 1000 ha 50.66 1000 ha Antarctica
2020s 267.75 1000 ha 274.74 1000 ha 7 1000 ha Spain

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Antarctica or Spain?
Spain, at 278.26 1000 ha against 273.1 1000 ha in Antarctica as of 2024.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Antarctica and Spain?
5.16 1000 ha, with Spain ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Antarctica and Spain?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Antarctica and Spain rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Antarctica ranks 59th and Spain ranks 58th 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.