Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Western Asia

Western Asia: Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS was 53,597 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
53,597 1000 ha
Change on year
up 3.0%
Rank
15th
of 26 groups
All-time high
53,597 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
46,530 1000 ha
in 2016
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Western Asia, 2015–2019

020.0k40.0k60.0k2015201720192015: 46.8k 1000 ha2016: 46.5k 1000 ha2017: 46.6k 1000 ha2018: 52.0k 1000 ha2019: 53.6k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Western Asia recorded 53,597 1000 ha for herbaceous crops — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is up 3.0% on the previous year and up 14.5% over five years.

That places Western Asia 15th out of 26 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Western Asia, year by year

Annual values for Herbaceous crops — Area from CGLS in Western Asia, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 46,790 1000 ha —
2016 46,530 1000 ha -0.6%
2017 46,630 1000 ha +0.2%
2018 52,029 1000 ha +11.6%
2019 53,597 1000 ha +3.0%

Countries ranked near Western Asia

  1. 12 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,294 1000 ha compare
  2. 12 Kazakhstan 24,438 1000 ha compare
  3. 13 Ethiopia 23,552 1000 ha compare
  4. 13 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,145 1000 ha compare
  5. 14 Mexico 23,001 1000 ha compare
  6. 14 Melanesia 85.8 1000 ha compare
  7. 15 Thailand 22,078 1000 ha compare
  8. 15 Timor-Leste 28.61 1000 ha compare
  9. 16 Pakistan 21,653 1000 ha compare
  10. 17 France 20,789 1000 ha compare
  11. 17 Polynesia 0.02 1000 ha compare
  12. 18 Sudan 18,022 1000 ha compare
  13. 18 Micronesia 0 1000 ha

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Frequently asked questions

What is herbaceous crops — area from cgls in Western Asia?
Herbaceous crops — area from cgls in Western Asia was 53,597 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 Western Asia?
The highest recorded value was 53,597 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest herbaceous crops — area from cgls recorded in Western Asia?
The lowest recorded value was 46,530 1000 ha in 2016.
How does Western Asia rank for herbaceous crops — area from cgls?
Western Asia ranks 15th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Western Asia 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.