Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in South America

South America: Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS was 121,287 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
121,287 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.7%
Rank
11th
of 26 groups
All-time high
121,287 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
119,108 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in South America, 2015–2019

025.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k125.0k2015201720192015: 119.1k 1000 ha2016: 119.1k 1000 ha2017: 119.6k 1000 ha2018: 120.4k 1000 ha2019: 121.3k 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 South America is 121,287 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.7% on the previous year and up 1.8% over five years.

That places South America 11th out of 26 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in South America, year by year

Annual values for Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in South America, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 119,108 1000 ha —
2016 119,126 1000 ha +0.0%
2017 119,566 1000 ha +0.4%
2018 120,430 1000 ha +0.7%
2019 121,287 1000 ha +0.7%

Countries ranked near South America

  1. 8 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3,127 1000 ha compare
  2. 8 Australia and New Zealand 37,833 1000 ha compare
  3. 9 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 3,086 1000 ha compare
  4. 9 Ukraine 36,446 1000 ha compare
  5. 10 Australia 35,670 1000 ha compare
  6. 10 Republic of Moldova 2,630 1000 ha compare
  7. 11 Lao People's Democratic Republic 2,413 1000 ha compare
  8. 11 Nigeria 34,968 1000 ha compare
  9. 12 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,294 1000 ha compare
  10. 12 Kazakhstan 24,438 1000 ha compare
  11. 13 Ethiopia 23,552 1000 ha compare
  12. 13 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,145 1000 ha compare
  13. 14 Mexico 23,001 1000 ha compare
  14. 14 Melanesia 85.8 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is herbaceous crops — area from cgls in South America?
Herbaceous crops — area from cgls in South America was 121,287 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 South America?
The highest recorded value was 121,287 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest herbaceous crops — area from cgls recorded in South America?
The lowest recorded value was 119,108 1000 ha in 2015.
How does South America rank for herbaceous crops — area from cgls?
South America ranks 11th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this South America 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.