Iraq vs Turkmenistan: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Iraq
29,036 1000 ha
in 2024
Turkmenistan
29,870 1000 ha
in 2024
Iraq rank
20th
Turkmenistan rank
19th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

  • Iraq
  • Turkmenistan
010.0k20.0k30.0k200120122024

How they compare

Turkmenistan currently reports 29,870 1000 ha against 29,036 1000 ha in Iraq, a difference of 834 1000 ha.

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

Iraq ranks 20th and Turkmenistan ranks 19th of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Iraq Turkmenistan Difference Ahead
2000s 29,829 1000 ha 26,464 1000 ha 3,365 1000 ha Iraq
2010s 29,989 1000 ha 26,527 1000 ha 3,462 1000 ha Iraq
2020s 28,469 1000 ha 28,016 1000 ha 453.5 1000 ha Iraq

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Iraq or Turkmenistan?
Turkmenistan, at 29,870 1000 ha against 29,036 1000 ha in Iraq as of 2024.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Iraq and Turkmenistan?
834 1000 ha, with Turkmenistan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Iraq and Turkmenistan?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Iraq and Turkmenistan rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Iraq ranks 20th and Turkmenistan ranks 19th of 223 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.