Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS in Somalia

Somalia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS was 17,177 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling

Latest (2024)
17,177 1000 ha
Change on year
down 2.5%
World rank
29th
of 240 countries
All-time high
19,484 1000 ha
in 2002
All-time low
17,177 1000 ha
in 2024
Years of data
24
2001–2024

Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS in Somalia, 2001–2024

05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k2001201220242001: 19.4k 1000 ha2002: 19.5k 1000 ha2003: 19.5k 1000 ha2004: 19.1k 1000 ha2005: 18.0k 1000 ha2006: 17.5k 1000 ha2007: 17.3k 1000 ha2008: 18.1k 1000 ha2009: 19.0k 1000 ha2010: 19.4k 1000 ha2011: 19.3k 1000 ha2012: 19.1k 1000 ha2013: 18.5k 1000 ha2014: 18.2k 1000 ha2015: 18.1k 1000 ha2016: 18.5k 1000 ha2017: 19.2k 1000 ha2018: 19.2k 1000 ha2019: 18.9k 1000 ha2020: 17.9k 1000 ha2021: 17.5k 1000 ha2022: 18.2k 1000 ha2023: 17.6k 1000 ha2024: 17.2k 1000 ha

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 Somalia is 17,177 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 24 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.5% on the previous year and down 5.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, terrestrial barren land — area from modis in Somalia peaked at 19,484 1000 ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 17,177 1000 ha, in 2024.

Somalia ranks 29th of 240 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 18,587 1000 ha 17,320 1000 ha 19,484 1000 ha 9
2010s 18,844 1000 ha 18,072 1000 ha 19,375 1000 ha 10
2020s 17,681 1000 ha 17,177 1000 ha 18,167 1000 ha 5

Countries ranked near Somalia

  1. 26 Kazakhstan 19,272 1000 ha compare
  2. 27 Uzbekistan 18,946 1000 ha compare
  3. 28 Morocco 18,490 1000 ha compare
  4. 30 Greenland 15,130 1000 ha compare
  5. 31 Australia and New Zealand 13,850 1000 ha compare
  6. 32 Russian Federation 13,458 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 269 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from modis in Somalia?
Terrestrial barren land — area from modis in Somalia was 17,177 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 Somalia?
The highest recorded value was 19,484 1000 ha in 2002.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from modis recorded in Somalia?
The lowest recorded value was 17,177 1000 ha in 2024.
How does Somalia rank for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
Somalia ranks 29th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
Is terrestrial barren land — area from modis rising or falling in Somalia?
Over the last ten years it is down 5.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Somalia 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

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.