Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC was 9.17 1000 ha in 2022. ▼ Falling
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Puerto Rico, 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 Puerto Rico is 9.17 1000 ha, measured in 2022.
That represents a change of up 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Puerto Rico peaked at 15.52 1000 ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 8.22 1000 ha, in 2013.
That places Puerto Rico 177th out of 241 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 15.08 1000 ha | 14.6 1000 ha | 15.52 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 10.64 1000 ha | 8.36 1000 ha | 14.39 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8.46 1000 ha | 8.22 1000 ha | 8.84 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9.16 1000 ha | 9.13 1000 ha | 9.17 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Puerto Rico
- 174 French Southern Territories 12.96 1000 ha compare
- 175 Luxembourg 12.67 1000 ha compare
- 176 Faroe Islands 12.15 1000 ha compare
- 178 Aruba 9.01 1000 ha compare
- 179 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 8.93 1000 ha compare
- 180 Jordan 8.17 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Puerto Rico
- Standard Deviation 0.268 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.16 °C (2025)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP 0.6901 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$ 864.98 million USD (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value Standard 677.16 million SLC (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$, 2015 677.16 million USD (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 0.6901 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value Standard 864.98 million SLC (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 0.6793 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Annual growth US$ 5.77 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Puerto Rico?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Puerto Rico was 9.17 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 Puerto Rico?
- The highest recorded value was 15.52 1000 ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The lowest recorded value was 8.22 1000 ha in 2013.
- How does Puerto Rico rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Puerto Rico ranks 177th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
- Is shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Puerto Rico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Puerto Rico 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.