Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Northern Africa

Northern Africa: Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS was 42,701 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
42,701 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.4%
Rank
16th
of 26 groups
All-time high
42,701 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
41,492 1000 ha
in 2016
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Northern Africa, 2015–2019

010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k2015201720192015: 41.6k 1000 ha2016: 41.5k 1000 ha2017: 42.0k 1000 ha2018: 42.5k 1000 ha2019: 42.7k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

The most recent figure for herbaceous crops — area from cgls in Northern Africa is 42,701 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 2.7% over five years.

That places Northern Africa 16th out of 26 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Northern Africa, year by year

Annual values for Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Northern Africa, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 41,575 1000 ha —
2016 41,492 1000 ha -0.2%
2017 42,033 1000 ha +1.3%
2018 42,527 1000 ha +1.2%
2019 42,701 1000 ha +0.4%

Countries ranked near Northern Africa

  1. 13 Ethiopia 23,552 1000 ha compare
  2. 13 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,145 1000 ha compare
  3. 14 Mexico 23,001 1000 ha compare
  4. 14 Melanesia 85.8 1000 ha compare
  5. 15 Thailand 22,078 1000 ha compare
  6. 15 Timor-Leste 28.61 1000 ha compare
  7. 16 Pakistan 21,653 1000 ha compare
  8. 17 France 20,789 1000 ha compare
  9. 17 Polynesia 0.02 1000 ha compare
  10. 18 Sudan 18,022 1000 ha compare
  11. 18 Micronesia 0 1000 ha
  12. 19 Myanmar 16,380 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is herbaceous crops — area from cgls in Northern Africa?
Herbaceous crops — area from cgls in Northern Africa was 42,701 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 Northern Africa?
The highest recorded value was 42,701 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest herbaceous crops — area from cgls recorded in Northern Africa?
The lowest recorded value was 41,492 1000 ha in 2016.
How does Northern Africa rank for herbaceous crops — area from cgls?
Northern Africa ranks 16th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Northern Africa 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.