Grassland — Area from MODIS in Sudan (former)

Sudan (former): Grassland — Area from MODIS was 92,493 1000 ha in 2011. ▬ Flat

Latest (2011)
92,493 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.4%
World rank
10th
of 240 countries
All-time high
93,638 1000 ha
in 2005
All-time low
85,855 1000 ha
in 2001
Years of data
11
2001–2011

Grassland — Area from MODIS in Sudan (former), 2001–2011

020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100.0k2001200620112001: 85.9k 1000 ha2002: 91.3k 1000 ha2003: 92.0k 1000 ha2004: 93.1k 1000 ha2005: 93.6k 1000 ha2006: 92.9k 1000 ha2007: 92.9k 1000 ha2008: 92.2k 1000 ha2009: 93.3k 1000 ha2010: 92.8k 1000 ha2011: 92.5k 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Sudan (former) recorded 92,493 1000 ha for grassland — area from modis in 2011.

The figure is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 7.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, grassland — area from modis in Sudan (former) peaked at 93,638 1000 ha in 2005 and was at its lowest, 85,855 1000 ha, in 2001.

That places Sudan (former) 10th out of 240 countries with data for 2011, putting it in the top 10%.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 91,912 1000 ha 85,855 1000 ha 93,638 1000 ha 9
2010s 92,662 1000 ha 92,493 1000 ha 92,830 1000 ha 2

Countries ranked near Sudan (former)

  1. 7 Canada 203,741 1000 ha compare
  2. 8 Brazil 187,113 1000 ha compare
  3. 9 Mongolia 100,380 1000 ha compare
  4. 11 Argentina 86,322 1000 ha compare
  5. 12 Sudan 67,533 1000 ha
  6. 13 Ethiopia 53,433 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 269 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is grassland — area from modis in Sudan (former)?
Grassland — area from modis in Sudan (former) was 92,493 1000 ha in 2011, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest grassland — area from modis recorded in Sudan (former)?
The highest recorded value was 93,638 1000 ha in 2005.
What is the lowest grassland — area from modis recorded in Sudan (former)?
The lowest recorded value was 85,855 1000 ha in 2001.
How does Sudan (former) rank for grassland — area from modis?
Sudan (former) ranks 10th out of 240 countries with data for 2011.
Is grassland — area from modis rising or falling in Sudan (former)?
Over the last ten years it is up 7.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Sudan (former) data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Grassland — Area from MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Grassland — 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.