Iraq vs Western Sahara: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS
Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time
- Iraq
- Western Sahara
How they compare
Iraq currently reports 29,036 1000 ha against 26,790 1000 ha in Western Sahara, a difference of 2,246 1000 ha.
That makes Iraq's figure about 1.1 times Western Sahara's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Western Sahara ahead.
Iraq ranks 20th and Western Sahara ranks 22nd of 223 countries.
Iraq has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Iraq | Western Sahara | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 29,829 1000 ha | 26,854 1000 ha | 2,974 1000 ha | Iraq |
| 2010s | 29,989 1000 ha | 26,787 1000 ha | 3,202 1000 ha | Iraq |
| 2020s | 28,469 1000 ha | 26,779 1000 ha | 1,691 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 Western Sahara?
- Iraq, at 29,036 1000 ha against 26,790 1000 ha in Western Sahara as of 2024.
- What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Iraq and Western Sahara?
- 2,246 1000 ha, with Iraq ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Iraq and Western Sahara?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Iraq and Western Sahara rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
- Iraq ranks 20th and Western Sahara ranks 22nd 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
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.