Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Palau
Palau: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC was 2.28 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Palau, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Palau is 2.28 1000 ha, measured in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of up 94.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Palau peaked at 2.28 1000 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 1.17 1000 ha, in 1992.
That places Palau 180th out of 224 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Palau, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1.17 1000 ha | — |
| 1993 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 1.17 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1.93 1000 ha | +65.0% |
| 2015 | 1.93 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1.96 1000 ha | +1.6% |
| 2017 | 1.96 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 1.96 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1.99 1000 ha | +1.5% |
| 2020 | 2.26 1000 ha | +13.6% |
| 2021 | 2.28 1000 ha | +0.9% |
| 2022 | 2.28 1000 ha | +0.0% |
Palau compared with similar countries
- Palau's 2.28 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 99.4 1000 ha, 2% of the median. (73 countries reporting)
- Palau's 2.28 1000 ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 46.32 1000 ha, 5% of the median. (27 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1.17 1000 ha | 1.17 1000 ha | 1.17 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 1.17 1000 ha | 1.17 1000 ha | 1.17 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.64 1000 ha | 1.17 1000 ha | 1.99 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.27 1000 ha | 2.26 1000 ha | 2.28 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Palau
- 177 Guadeloupe 2.86 1000 ha compare
- 178 Isle of Man 2.73 1000 ha compare
- 179 Tonga 2.71 1000 ha compare
- 181 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 1.37 1000 ha compare
- 182 Barbados 1.34 1000 ha compare
- 183 American Samoa 1.14 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Palau
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 14.18 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.167 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.05 °C (2025)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 5 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 53.49 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.13 ha/cap (2024)
- Arable land — Area 0.3 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 6.98 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 2 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Palau?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Palau was 2.28 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 Palau?
- The highest recorded value was 2.28 1000 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Palau?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.17 1000 ha in 1992.
- How does Palau rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Palau ranks 180th out of 224 countries with data for 2022.
- Is shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Palau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 94.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Palau 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.