Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC by country

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...

Countries reporting
241
Highest
181,702 1000 ha
Australia and New Zealand
Lowest
0 1000 ha
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Median
202.43 1000 ha
Years covered
31
1992–2022
Data points
8,231

What the numbers show

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC is currently reported for 241 countries. The highest value is 181,702 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 0 1000 ha in Heard Island and McDonald Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 202.43 1000 ha, and the mean is 6,566 1000 ha.

Over the past decade 120 countries rose and 85 fell. The largest increase was in Palau (up 94.9%), and the largest decrease in United Arab Emirates (down 20.3%).

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Australia and New Zealand 181,702 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
2 Australia 179,257 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
3 Brazil 146,572 1000 ha 2022 down 1.6% flat
4 Russian Federation 136,116 1000 ha 2022 up 7.1% rising
5 Argentina 98,450 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
6 Mexico 70,432 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% flat
7 Canada 58,090 1000 ha 2022 up 5.4% rising
8 Ethiopia 48,006 1000 ha 2022 down 2.5% flat
9 Sudan (former) 45,490 1000 ha 2011 down 3.2% falling
10 Botswana 44,738 1000 ha 2022 down 0.8% flat
11 Somalia 36,754 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% flat
12 South Sudan 28,213 1000 ha 2022 down 2.3% flat
13 China 23,500 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% falling
14 China, mainland 23,458 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% falling
15 Angola 23,151 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% flat
16 Kazakhstan 22,500 1000 ha 2022 up 2.5% rising
17 India 21,353 1000 ha 2022 up 0.5% falling
18 Kenya 20,127 1000 ha 2022 down 1.6% flat
19 Namibia 17,607 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
20 United Republic of Tanzania 16,720 1000 ha 2022 down 1.7% falling
21 Sudan 15,693 1000 ha 2022 down 1.6% flat
22 Mozambique 15,568 1000 ha 2022 up 0.0% flat
23 Chile 14,426 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% flat
24 Chad 14,006 1000 ha 2022 down 3.5% falling
25 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 13,170 1000 ha 2022 up 7.2% rising
26 Myanmar 12,493 1000 ha 2022 down 1.7% falling
27 Zambia 12,387 1000 ha 2022 up 0.4% falling
28 Zimbabwe 10,925 1000 ha 2022 down 2.3% falling
29 Paraguay 10,507 1000 ha 2022 up 7.6% rising
30 Nigeria 9,998 1000 ha 2022 down 10.4% falling
31 Peru 9,801 1000 ha 2022 down 1.8% flat
32 Madagascar 9,267 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% flat
33 Mali 8,246 1000 ha 2022 down 6.5% falling
34 Indonesia 7,655 1000 ha 2022 up 3.0% rising
35 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 7,570 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
36 Democratic Republic of the Congo 7,529 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% falling
37 Colombia 7,389 1000 ha 2022 up 0.5% rising
38 Lao People's Democratic Republic 7,227 1000 ha 2022 down 1.5% falling
39 Türkiye 7,084 1000 ha 2022 up 3.0% rising
40 Senegal 6,981 1000 ha 2022 down 1.0% falling
41 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 6,836 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% flat
42 Pakistan 6,812 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% falling
43 Turkmenistan 6,740 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
44 Spain 6,184 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% flat
45 Viet Nam 5,809 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% flat
46 Thailand 5,078 1000 ha 2022 down 2.2% falling
47 Uzbekistan 4,202 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
48 Guinea 3,243 1000 ha 2022 down 5.8% falling
49 Afghanistan 3,123 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% falling
50 Ghana 3,084 1000 ha 2022 down 12.7% falling
51 Côte d'Ivoire 3,080 1000 ha 2022 down 13.4% falling
52 Greece 3,032 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
53 Ecuador 2,887 1000 ha 2022 down 5.4% flat
54 Mongolia 2,855 1000 ha 2022 up 1.0% rising
55 Burkina Faso 2,823 1000 ha 2022 down 6.3% falling
56 Benin 2,792 1000 ha 2022 down 13.0% falling
57 New Zealand 2,445 1000 ha 2022 up 1.5% rising
58 Uganda 2,309 1000 ha 2022 down 10.6% falling
59 Cameroon 2,290 1000 ha 2022 down 3.2% falling
60 Morocco 2,247 1000 ha 2022 down 0.9% flat
61 Congo 2,165 1000 ha 2022 down 4.0% falling
62 Algeria 2,030 1000 ha 2022 down 1.0% flat
63 Eritrea 1,706 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% flat
64 Norway 1,698 1000 ha 2022 up 1.4% rising
65 Cambodia 1,678 1000 ha 2022 up 2.4% rising
66 France 1,610 1000 ha 2022 up 8.0% rising
67 Sweden 1,600 1000 ha 2022 up 20.5% rising
68 Yemen 1,596 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
69 Malaysia 1,488 1000 ha 2022 up 7.1% rising
70 Philippines 1,415 1000 ha 2022 up 1.6% flat
71 Italy 1,392 1000 ha 2022 up 2.0% rising
72 Portugal 1,327 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% rising
73 Sri Lanka 1,315 1000 ha 2022 up 4.0% rising
74 Niger 1,314 1000 ha 2022 up 4.2% flat
75 Guyana 1,124 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% rising
76 Finland 1,045 1000 ha 2022 up 15.6% rising
77 Greenland 1,043 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
78 Azerbaijan 990.32 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
79 Nicaragua 953.4 1000 ha 2022 down 0.9% rising
80 Germany 940.45 1000 ha 2022 up 9.0% rising
81 Japan 917.73 1000 ha 2022 up 3.5% flat
82 Melanesia 907.08 1000 ha 2022 up 6.4% flat
83 Honduras 845.07 1000 ha 2022 up 14.4% rising
84 Bangladesh 823.97 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% falling
85 Kyrgyzstan 819.93 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% flat
86 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 779.52 1000 ha 2022 up 0.8% flat
87 Lesotho 772.21 1000 ha 2022 up 1.3% flat
88 Guatemala 769.03 1000 ha 2022 up 5.5% rising
89 Mauritania 764.75 1000 ha 2022 up 1.0% flat
90 Caribbean 761.38 1000 ha 2022 up 5.1% falling
91 Papua New Guinea 737.94 1000 ha 2022 up 6.1% rising
92 Togo 666.62 1000 ha 2022 down 17.9% falling
93 Tajikistan 665.07 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
94 Uruguay 647.39 1000 ha 2022 down 2.3% falling
95 Gabon 635.43 1000 ha 2022 down 1.4% flat
96 Poland 618.99 1000 ha 2022 up 8.5% flat
97 Georgia 616.57 1000 ha 2022 down 0.9% flat
98 Nepal 522.35 1000 ha 2022 down 0.6% falling
99 Belarus 462.48 1000 ha 2022 up 12.3% falling
100 Ukraine 458.25 1000 ha 2022 up 14.3% falling
101 Sierra Leone 456.49 1000 ha 2022 up 0.5% flat
102 Armenia 447.13 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% flat
103 Cuba 436.55 1000 ha 2022 up 2.9% flat
104 Saudi Arabia 417.72 1000 ha 2022 down 0.9% falling
105 Malawi 411.82 1000 ha 2022 up 4.0% rising
106 Panama 402.27 1000 ha 2022 up 1.7% flat
107 Austria 358.51 1000 ha 2022 up 11.6% rising
108 Iraq 350.82 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% flat
109 Bulgaria 339.71 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% falling
110 Serbia and Montenegro 316.63 1000 ha 2005 down 6.1% falling
111 Albania 315.04 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
112 Burundi 303.6 1000 ha 2022 up 1.5% flat
113 Croatia 279.32 1000 ha 2022 up 4.3% rising
114 Bosnia and Herzegovina 277.14 1000 ha 2022 up 4.9% rising
115 Czechia 268.02 1000 ha 2022 up 18.5% rising
116 Costa Rica 247.3 1000 ha 2022 down 3.9% falling
117 Syrian Arab Republic 236.79 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% flat
118 Latvia 228.63 1000 ha 2022 up 3.8% rising
119 Rwanda 220.8 1000 ha 2022 up 5.0% flat
120 Lebanon 219.98 1000 ha 2022 down 2.3% flat
121 Eswatini 202.43 1000 ha 2022 up 1.5% rising
122 Libya 198.82 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% flat
123 Romania 197.69 1000 ha 2022 up 11.7% falling
124 Serbia 192.52 1000 ha 2022 up 5.9% flat
125 Liberia 189.41 1000 ha 2022 down 1.7% rising
126 Lithuania 186.41 1000 ha 2022 up 2.3% falling
127 Guinea-Bissau 181.49 1000 ha 2022 up 2.3% flat
128 Ireland 177.83 1000 ha 2022 up 4.8% rising
129 Switzerland 176.11 1000 ha 2022 up 11.6% rising
130 Estonia 159.64 1000 ha 2022 up 4.6% rising
131 Dominican Republic 154.16 1000 ha 2022 up 9.4% falling
132 Republic of Korea 149.97 1000 ha 2022 down 3.7% rising
133 Suriname 146.34 1000 ha 2022 up 2.1% rising
134 Cabo Verde 145.1 1000 ha 2022 down 1.2% flat
135 Montenegro 144.54 1000 ha 2022 up 8.4% rising
136 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 136.42 1000 ha 2022 up 8.1% flat
137 Tunisia 133.61 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% flat
138 Belize 129.36 1000 ha 2022 up 19.2% rising
139 North Macedonia 128.38 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% falling
140 Timor-Leste 117.49 1000 ha 2022 down 1.4% falling
141 Cyprus 114.1 1000 ha 2022 down 1.0% flat
142 Bhutan 111.37 1000 ha 2022 up 4.8% falling
143 New Caledonia 109.99 1000 ha 2022 up 5.4% falling
144 Slovakia 107.6 1000 ha 2022 up 13.0% rising
145 Belgium-Luxembourg 105.99 1000 ha 1999 up 0.2% flat
146 Gambia 105.95 1000 ha 2022 down 10.7% falling
147 Slovenia 103.75 1000 ha 2022 up 10.8% rising
148 Belgium 102.2 1000 ha 2022 up 4.4% rising
149 Denmark 99.4 1000 ha 2022 up 6.0% rising
150 Egypt 78.82 1000 ha 2022 down 2.0% falling
151 Hungary 78.18 1000 ha 2022 up 6.1% falling
152 Iceland 76.98 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
153 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 70.86 1000 ha 2022 up 6.1% falling
154 Israel 63.36 1000 ha 2022 down 1.3% flat
155 Oman 57.13 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% falling
156 Bahamas 46.74 1000 ha 2022 up 11.8% rising
157 Fiji 46.32 1000 ha 2022 up 9.1% rising
158 Haiti 45.99 1000 ha 2022 up 7.7% falling
159 El Salvador 42.21 1000 ha 2022 up 1.3% falling
160 Polynesia 41.12 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
161 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 36.16 1000 ha 2022 up 0.8% flat
162 China, Taiwan Province of 34.91 1000 ha 2022 up 9.5% rising
163 Palestine 29.96 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
164 Djibouti 24.57 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% flat
165 Samoa 22.07 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
166 Comoros 21.82 1000 ha 2022 up 8.2% rising
167 French Guiana 17.5 1000 ha 2022 up 6.4% rising
168 Netherlands Antilles (former) 16.26 1000 ha 2022 down 4.2% falling
169 Trinidad and Tobago 15.72 1000 ha 2022 up 12.5% flat
170 Equatorial Guinea 14.56 1000 ha 2022 up 1.4% flat
171 Jamaica 14.55 1000 ha 2022 up 15.2% rising
172 French Polynesia 13.23 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% flat
173 Mauritius 13.09 1000 ha 2022 up 8.5% rising
174 French Southern Territories 12.96 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
175 Luxembourg 12.67 1000 ha 2022 up 2.4% rising
176 Faroe Islands 12.15 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
177 Puerto Rico 9.17 1000 ha 2022 up 10.7% falling
178 Aruba 9.01 1000 ha 2022 down 19.8% falling
179 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 8.93 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% flat
180 Jordan 8.17 1000 ha 2022 down 3.0% falling
181 Republic of Moldova 8.15 1000 ha 2022 up 7.5% flat
182 Vanuatu 7.69 1000 ha 2022 up 1.9% falling
183 Brunei Darussalam 7.48 1000 ha 2022 up 8.9% falling
184 China, Hong Kong SAR 6.47 1000 ha 2022 up 8.7% falling
185 Qatar 6.09 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% falling
186 Solomon Islands 5.13 1000 ha 2022 up 71.6% rising
187 Martinique 3.74 1000 ha 2022 up 26.4% rising
188 United Arab Emirates 3.49 1000 ha 2022 down 20.3% falling
189 Micronesia 3.41 1000 ha 2022 up 48.9% rising
190 Mayotte 3.07 1000 ha 2022 down 0.6% flat
191 Kuwait 3 1000 ha 2022 down 17.8% falling
192 Guadeloupe 2.86 1000 ha 2022 up 33.0% rising
193 Isle of Man 2.73 1000 ha 2022 up 0.4% flat
194 Tonga 2.71 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
195 Palau 2.28 1000 ha 2022 up 94.9% rising
196 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 1.37 1000 ha 2022 down 1.4% flat
197 Barbados 1.34 1000 ha 2022 down 3.6% falling
198 Singapore 1.12 1000 ha 2022 down 1.8% falling
199 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.05 1000 ha 2022 down 5.4% flat
200 Antigua and Barbuda 0.96 1000 ha 2022 up 6.7% rising
200 Saint Lucia 0.96 1000 ha 2022 up 15.7% rising
202 Andorra 0.88 1000 ha 2022 up 15.8% flat
203 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.86 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
204 Seychelles 0.72 1000 ha 2022 up 1.4% flat
204 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.72 1000 ha 2022 down 1.4% flat
206 Liechtenstein 0.71 1000 ha 2022 up 26.8% rising
207 Cook Islands 0.62 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
208 Sao Tome and Principe 0.6 1000 ha 2022 down 1.6% falling
209 Northern Mariana Islands 0.54 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
210 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.52 1000 ha 2022 up 4.0% flat
211 Bahrain 0.5 1000 ha 2022 unchanged rising
212 Channel Islands 0.46 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
213 Niue 0.45 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
214 Malta 0.35 1000 ha 2022 down 12.5% falling
215 Cayman Islands 0.32 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
216 Maldives 0.28 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
217 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.25 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
218 Montserrat 0.21 1000 ha 2022 up 5.0% rising
219 United States Virgin Islands 0.18 1000 ha 2022 unchanged falling
220 Guam 0.15 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
221 Grenada 0.14 1000 ha 2022 unchanged falling
222 Anguilla 0.13 1000 ha 2022 unchanged rising
223 Kiribati 0.12 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
224 San Marino 0.09 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
224 Norfolk Island 0.09 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
226 Gibraltar 0.07 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
227 Dominica 0.06 1000 ha 2022 up 50.0% flat
228 Tuvalu 0.05 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
229 Marshall Islands 0.04 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
230 British Virgin Islands 0.03 1000 ha 2022 unchanged falling
230 China, Macao SAR 0.03 1000 ha 2022 unchanged rising
232 Bermuda 0.01 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
232 United States Minor Outlying Islands 0.01 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
232 Naoero 0.01 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
235 Monaco 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
235 Western Sahara 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
235 Tokelau 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
235 Antarctica 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
235 Pitcairn 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
235 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
235 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0 1000 ha 2022 flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed

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.