Bhutan vs Switzerland: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Bhutan
184.41 1000 ha
in 2024
Switzerland
219.06 1000 ha
in 2024
Bhutan rank
60th
Switzerland rank
58th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

  • Bhutan
  • Switzerland
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How they compare

Switzerland currently reports 219.06 1000 ha against 184.41 1000 ha in Bhutan, a difference of 34.65 1000 ha.

That makes Switzerland's figure about 1.2 times Bhutan's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Switzerland ahead.

Bhutan ranks 60th and Switzerland ranks 58th of 218 countries.

Across the 3 decades both report, Bhutan averaged higher in 2 and Switzerland in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Bhutan Switzerland Difference Ahead
2000s 246.85 1000 ha 224.09 1000 ha 22.76 1000 ha Bhutan
2010s 229.76 1000 ha 219.64 1000 ha 10.11 1000 ha Bhutan
2020s 200.53 1000 ha 219.75 1000 ha 19.22 1000 ha Switzerland

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Bhutan or Switzerland?
Switzerland, at 219.06 1000 ha against 184.41 1000 ha in Bhutan as of 2024.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Bhutan and Switzerland?
34.65 1000 ha, with Switzerland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bhutan and Switzerland?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Bhutan and Switzerland rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Bhutan ranks 60th and Switzerland ranks 58th of 218 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.