Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Malawi or Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia, at 417.72 1000 ha against 411.82 1000 ha in Malawi as of 2022.

What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Malawi and Saudi Arabia?

5.9 1000 ha, with Saudi Arabia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Malawi and Saudi Arabia?

31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.

Where does this data come from?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Malawi vs Saudi Arabia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC

Malawi

411.82 1000 ha

in 2022

Saudi Arabia

417.72 1000 ha

in 2022

Malawi rank

105th

Saudi Arabia rank

104th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

Malawi
Saudi Arabia

How they compare

Saudi Arabia currently reports 417.72 1000 ha against 411.82 1000 ha in Malawi, a difference of 5.9 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Saudi Arabia ahead.

Malawi ranks 105th and Saudi Arabia ranks 104th of 241 countries.

Saudi Arabia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Malawi	Saudi Arabia	Difference	Ahead
1990s	376.53 1000 ha	436.45 1000 ha	59.92 1000 ha	Saudi Arabia
2000s	402.84 1000 ha	426.61 1000 ha	23.77 1000 ha	Saudi Arabia
2010s	400.75 1000 ha	420.39 1000 ha	19.64 1000 ha	Saudi Arabia
2020s	409.74 1000 ha	418.48 1000 ha	8.74 1000 ha	Saudi Arabia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Malawi or Saudi Arabia?: Saudi Arabia, at 417.72 1000 ha against 411.82 1000 ha in Malawi as of 2022.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Malawi and Saudi Arabia?: 5.9 1000 ha, with Saudi Arabia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Malawi and Saudi Arabia?: 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Malawi and Saudi Arabia rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?: Malawi ranks 105th and Saudi Arabia ranks 104th of 241 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Unit: 1000 ha
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed: 12 August 2026

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.