Mauritania vs Niger: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Mauritania
87,105 1000 ha
in 2024
Niger
87,268 1000 ha
in 2024
Mauritania rank
11th
Niger rank
10th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

  • Mauritania
  • Niger
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How they compare

Niger currently reports 87,268 1000 ha against 87,105 1000 ha in Mauritania, a difference of 163 1000 ha.

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

Mauritania ranks 11th and Niger ranks 10th of 240 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Mauritania Niger Difference Ahead
2000s 87,881 1000 ha 89,478 1000 ha 1,597 1000 ha Niger
2010s 86,678 1000 ha 88,444 1000 ha 1,765 1000 ha Niger
2020s 87,482 1000 ha 87,582 1000 ha 99.44 1000 ha Niger

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Mauritania or Niger?
Niger, at 87,268 1000 ha against 87,105 1000 ha in Mauritania as of 2024.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Mauritania and Niger?
163 1000 ha, with Niger ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Mauritania and Niger?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Mauritania and Niger rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Mauritania ranks 11th and Niger ranks 10th 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.