Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Europe

Europe: Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS was 294,678 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
294,678 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.0%
Rank
3rd
of 26 groups
All-time high
295,866 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
294,678 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Europe, 2015–2019

0100.0k200.0k300.0k2015201720192015: 295.9k 1000 ha2016: 295.4k 1000 ha2017: 295.1k 1000 ha2018: 294.8k 1000 ha2019: 294.7k 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

In 2019, herbaceous crops — area from cgls in Europe stood at 294,678 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.4% over five years.

That places Europe 3rd out of 26 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.

Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Europe, year by year

Annual values for Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Europe, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 295,866 1000 ha —
2016 295,409 1000 ha -0.2%
2017 295,107 1000 ha -0.1%
2018 294,819 1000 ha -0.1%
2019 294,678 1000 ha -0.0%

Countries ranked near Europe

  1. 1 India 185,988 1000 ha compare
  2. 2 China 164,597 1000 ha compare
  3. 2 Türkiye 21,413 1000 ha compare
  4. 3 China, mainland 164,203 1000 ha compare
  5. 3 United Republic of Tanzania 19,414 1000 ha compare
  6. 4 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 19,116 1000 ha compare
  7. 4 Russian Federation 106,333 1000 ha compare
  8. 5 Brazil 59,964 1000 ha compare
  9. 6 Argentina 41,101 1000 ha compare
  10. 6 Syrian Arab Republic 8,430 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is herbaceous crops — area from cgls in Europe?
Herbaceous crops — area from cgls in Europe was 294,678 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest herbaceous crops — area from cgls recorded in Europe?
The highest recorded value was 295,866 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest herbaceous crops — area from cgls recorded in Europe?
The lowest recorded value was 294,678 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Europe rank for herbaceous crops — area from cgls?
Europe ranks 3rd out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Europe data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Herbaceous crops — 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
238 places, 1,190 data points, 2015–2019
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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.