Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS in Northern America
Northern America: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS was 81,557 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS in Northern America, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for terrestrial barren land — area from modis in Northern America is 81,557 1000 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and down 5.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, terrestrial barren land — area from modis in Northern America peaked at 95,944 1000 ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 79,412 1000 ha, in 2012.
Northern America ranks 10th of 29 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 90,285 1000 ha | 83,466 1000 ha | 95,944 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 84,602 1000 ha | 79,412 1000 ha | 88,415 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 84,222 1000 ha | 81,416 1000 ha | 86,461 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
More environment data for Northern America
- Standard Deviation 0.466 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.49 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 92.54 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 43.74 million t (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 40.32 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 11.92 g/Int$ (2024)
- Country area — Area 2.59 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area — Area 1.83 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Agriculture — Area 493,252 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Area 478,582 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is terrestrial barren land — area from modis in Northern America?
- Terrestrial barren land — area from modis in Northern America was 81,557 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest terrestrial barren land — area from modis recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 95,944 1000 ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from modis recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 79,412 1000 ha in 2012.
- How does Northern America rank for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
- Northern America ranks 10th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is terrestrial barren land — area from modis rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 5.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Northern America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.