Canada vs Middle Africa: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Canada
44,381 1000 ha
in 2024
Middle Africa
71,369 1000 ha
in 2024
Canada rank
14th
Middle Africa rank
10th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

  • Canada
  • Middle Africa
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k200120122024

How they compare

Middle Africa currently reports 71,369 1000 ha against 44,381 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 26,988 1000 ha.

That makes Middle Africa's figure about 1.6 times Canada's.

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

Canada ranks 14th and Middle Africa ranks 10th of 218 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Canada Middle Africa Difference Ahead
2000s 49,929 1000 ha 71,780 1000 ha 21,851 1000 ha Middle Africa
2010s 48,015 1000 ha 71,545 1000 ha 23,531 1000 ha Middle Africa
2020s 47,397 1000 ha 71,533 1000 ha 24,136 1000 ha Middle Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Canada or Middle Africa?
Middle Africa, at 71,369 1000 ha against 44,381 1000 ha in Canada as of 2024.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Canada and Middle Africa?
26,988 1000 ha, with Middle Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Middle Africa?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Canada and Middle Africa rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Canada ranks 14th and Middle Africa ranks 10th 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.