Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Central Asia or Mauritania, Islamic Republic of?

Mauritania, Islamic Republic of, at 87,105 1000 ha against 76,136 1000 ha in Central Asia as of 2024.

What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Central Asia and Mauritania, Islamic Republic of?

10,969 1000 ha, with Mauritania, Islamic Republic of ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Central Asia and Mauritania, Islamic Republic of?

24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.

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.

Central Asia vs Mauritania, Islamic Republic of: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Central Asia

76,136 1000 ha

in 2024

Mauritania, Islamic Republic of

87,105 1000 ha

in 2024

Central Asia rank

9th

Mauritania, Islamic Republic of rank

10th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

Central Asia
Mauritania, Islamic Republic of

How they compare

Mauritania, Islamic Republic of currently reports 87,105 1000 ha against 76,136 1000 ha in Central Asia, a difference of 10,969 1000 ha.

That makes Mauritania, Islamic Republic of's figure about 1.1 times Central Asia's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Mauritania, Islamic Republic of has been ahead every year.

Central Asia ranks 9th and Mauritania, Islamic Republic of ranks 10th of 44 groups.

Mauritania, Islamic Republic of has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Central Asia	Mauritania, Islamic Republic of	Difference	Ahead
2000s	65,474 1000 ha	87,881 1000 ha	22,407 1000 ha	Mauritania, Islamic Republic of
2010s	65,946 1000 ha	86,678 1000 ha	20,732 1000 ha	Mauritania, Islamic Republic of
2020s	72,075 1000 ha	87,482 1000 ha	15,408 1000 ha	Mauritania, Islamic Republic of

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Central Asia or Mauritania, Islamic Republic of?: Mauritania, Islamic Republic of, at 87,105 1000 ha against 76,136 1000 ha in Central Asia as of 2024.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Central Asia and Mauritania, Islamic Republic of?: 10,969 1000 ha, with Mauritania, Islamic Republic of ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Central Asia and Mauritania, Islamic Republic of?: 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Central Asia and Mauritania, Islamic Republic of rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?: Central Asia ranks 9th and Mauritania, Islamic Republic of ranks 10th of 44 groups.
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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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: 12 August 2026

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.