Australia vs World: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS

Australia
125,613 1000 ha
in 2019
World
1.12 million 1000 ha
in 2019
Australia rank
2nd
World rank
1st

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS over time

  • Australia
  • World
250.0k500.0k750.0k1.0M1.2M201520172019

How they compare

World currently reports 1.12 million 1000 ha against 125,613 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 995,007 1000 ha.

That makes World's figure about 8.9 times Australia's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, World has been ahead every year.

Australia ranks 2nd and World ranks 1st of 214 countries.

World has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cgls, Australia or World?
World, at 1.12 million 1000 ha against 125,613 1000 ha in Australia as of 2019.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cgls between Australia and World?
995,007 1000 ha, with World ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and World?
5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
How do Australia and World rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Australia ranks 2nd and World ranks 1st of 214 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS. 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 CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
242 places, 1,210 data points, 2015–2019
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.