Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Malta
Malta: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC was 0.35 1000 ha in 2022. ▼ Falling
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Malta, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Malta recorded 0.35 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in 2022. That is the lowest value across all 31 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 5.4% on the previous year and down 12.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Malta peaked at 0.44 1000 ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 0.35 1000 ha, in 2022.
Malta ranks 214th of 241 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.425 1000 ha | 0.42 1000 ha | 0.44 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 0.407 1000 ha | 0.4 1000 ha | 0.42 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.391 1000 ha | 0.37 1000 ha | 0.4 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.3633 1000 ha | 0.35 1000 ha | 0.37 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Malta
- 211 Bahrain 0.5 1000 ha compare
- 212 Channel Islands 0.46 1000 ha compare
- 213 Niue 0.45 1000 ha compare
- 215 Cayman Islands 0.32 1000 ha compare
- 216 Maldives 0.28 1000 ha compare
- 217 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.25 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Malta
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 35.01 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 2.81 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 12.96 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 1.04 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 87.04 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 6.98 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.01 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 25.45 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 100 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 8.02 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Malta?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Malta was 0.35 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Malta?
- The highest recorded value was 0.44 1000 ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Malta?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.35 1000 ha in 2022.
- How does Malta rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Malta ranks 214th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
- Is shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Malta?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malta data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.