Middle Africa vs Sudan (former): Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS

Middle Africa
71,369 1000 ha
in 2024
Sudan (former)
113,270 1000 ha
in 2011
Middle Africa rank
3rd
Sudan (former) rank
6th

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time

  • Middle Africa
  • Sudan (former)
025.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k125.0k200120122024

How they compare

Sudan (former) currently reports 113,270 1000 ha against 71,369 1000 ha in Middle Africa, a difference of 41,901 1000 ha.

That makes Sudan (former)'s figure about 1.6 times Middle Africa's.

Across all 11 years both countries report, Sudan (former) has been ahead every year.

Middle Africa ranks 3rd and Sudan (former) ranks 6th of 20 groups.

Sudan (former) has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Middle Africa Sudan (former) Difference Ahead
2000s 71,780 1000 ha 113,136 1000 ha 41,356 1000 ha Sudan (former)
2010s 71,681 1000 ha 113,017 1000 ha 41,336 1000 ha Sudan (former)

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Middle Africa or Sudan (former)?
Sudan (former), at 113,270 1000 ha against 71,369 1000 ha in Middle Africa as of 2011.
What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Middle Africa and Sudan (former)?
41,901 1000 ha, with Sudan (former) ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Middle Africa and Sudan (former)?
11 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2011.
How do Middle Africa and Sudan (former) rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Middle Africa ranks 3rd and Sudan (former) ranks 6th of 20 groups.
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.