Herbaceous crops — Area from CCI_LC in Malta
Malta: Herbaceous crops — Area from CCI_LC was 13.35 1000 ha in 2022. ▼ Falling
Herbaceous crops — Area from CCI_LC in Malta, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Malta recorded 13.35 1000 ha for herbaceous crops — area from cci_lc in 2022.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, herbaceous crops — area from cci_lc in Malta peaked at 15.1 1000 ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 12.89 1000 ha, in 2020.
That places Malta 177th out of 241 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 14.62 1000 ha | 14.09 1000 ha | 15.1 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 13.59 1000 ha | 13.07 1000 ha | 14.08 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13.26 1000 ha | 13.16 1000 ha | 13.34 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13.21 1000 ha | 12.89 1000 ha | 13.39 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Malta
- 174 Brunei Darussalam 17.99 1000 ha compare
- 175 Tonga 15.78 1000 ha compare
- 176 Micronesia 13.89 1000 ha compare
- 178 Bahamas 12.11 1000 ha compare
- 179 Singapore 10.97 1000 ha compare
- 180 French Guiana 10.64 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Malta
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 35.01 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 2.81 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 12.96 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 1.04 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 87.04 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 6.98 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.01 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 25.45 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 100 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 8.02 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is herbaceous crops — area from cci_lc in Malta?
- Herbaceous crops — area from cci_lc in Malta was 13.35 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest herbaceous crops — area from cci_lc recorded in Malta?
- The highest recorded value was 15.1 1000 ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest herbaceous crops — area from cci_lc recorded in Malta?
- The lowest recorded value was 12.89 1000 ha in 2020.
- How does Malta rank for herbaceous crops — area from cci_lc?
- Malta ranks 177th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
- Is herbaceous crops — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Malta?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malta data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Herbaceous crops — Area from CCI_LC. 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.