Brazil vs Spain: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Brazil
221.68 1000 ha
in 2024
Spain
278.26 1000 ha
in 2024
Brazil rank
60th
Spain rank
58th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

  • Brazil
  • Spain
0100200300400200120122024

How they compare

Spain currently reports 278.26 1000 ha against 221.68 1000 ha in Brazil, a difference of 56.58 1000 ha.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.3 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 60th and Spain ranks 58th of 240 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Brazil Spain Difference Ahead
2000s 318.45 1000 ha 276.09 1000 ha 42.36 1000 ha Brazil
2010s 326.53 1000 ha 256.33 1000 ha 70.2 1000 ha Brazil
2020s 240.28 1000 ha 274.74 1000 ha 34.47 1000 ha Spain

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Brazil or Spain?
Spain, at 278.26 1000 ha against 221.68 1000 ha in Brazil as of 2024.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Brazil and Spain?
56.58 1000 ha, with Spain ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Spain?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Brazil and Spain rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Brazil ranks 60th 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.