Mauritania vs Southern Asia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS
Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time
- Mauritania
- Southern Asia
How they compare
Southern Asia currently reports 169,076 1000 ha against 87,105 1000 ha in Mauritania, a difference of 81,971 1000 ha.
That makes Southern Asia's figure about 1.9 times Mauritania's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Southern Asia has been ahead every year.
Mauritania ranks 10th and Southern Asia ranks 7th of 223 countries.
Southern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Mauritania | Southern Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 87,881 1000 ha | 182,317 1000 ha | 94,436 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2010s | 86,678 1000 ha | 174,478 1000 ha | 87,800 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2020s | 87,482 1000 ha | 171,217 1000 ha | 83,734 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Mauritania or Southern Asia?
- Southern Asia, at 169,076 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 Southern Asia?
- 81,971 1000 ha, with Southern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Mauritania and Southern Asia?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Mauritania and Southern Asia rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
- Mauritania ranks 10th and Southern Asia ranks 7th 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.