Mauritania vs South America: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS
Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time
- Mauritania
- South America
How they compare
Mauritania currently reports 87,105 1000 ha against 67,514 1000 ha in South America, a difference of 19,591 1000 ha.
That makes Mauritania's figure about 1.3 times South America's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Mauritania has been ahead every year.
Mauritania ranks 10th and South America ranks 11th of 223 countries.
Mauritania has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Mauritania | South America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 87,881 1000 ha | 68,373 1000 ha | 19,508 1000 ha | Mauritania |
| 2010s | 86,678 1000 ha | 67,538 1000 ha | 19,140 1000 ha | Mauritania |
| 2020s | 87,482 1000 ha | 67,222 1000 ha | 20,260 1000 ha | Mauritania |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Mauritania or South America?
- Mauritania, at 87,105 1000 ha against 67,514 1000 ha in South America as of 2024.
- What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Mauritania and South America?
- 19,591 1000 ha, with Mauritania ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Mauritania and South America?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Mauritania and South America rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
- Mauritania ranks 10th and South America ranks 11th 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.