Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC was 127,763 1000 ha in 2022. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC in Southern Africa, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Southern Africa recorded 127,763 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in 2022. That is the lowest value across all 31 years on record.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Southern Africa peaked at 128,516 1000 ha in 1999 and was at its lowest, 127,763 1000 ha, in 2022.
Southern Africa ranks 8th of 44 regions on this measure, in the top quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 128,266 1000 ha | 128,213 1000 ha | 128,516 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 128,445 1000 ha | 128,290 1000 ha | 128,508 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 128,216 1000 ha | 128,039 1000 ha | 128,324 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 127,857 1000 ha | 127,763 1000 ha | 127,971 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
- 5 Argentina 98,450 1000 ha compare
- 6 Mexico 70,432 1000 ha compare
- 7 South Africa 64,444 1000 ha compare
- 8 Canada 58,090 1000 ha compare
- 9 Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of 48,006 1000 ha compare
- 10 Sudan (former) 45,490 1000 ha compare
- 11 Botswana 44,738 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Southern Africa
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 0.892 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.282 °C (2025)
- Industrial roundwood — Import value 35,013 1000 USD (2024)
- Wood fuel — Production 18.57 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, coniferous — Production 770,000 m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 17.80 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Production 17.26 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export quantity 427,327 m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood, non-coniferous — Production 9.63 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Southern Africa?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc in Southern Africa was 127,763 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 Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 128,516 1000 ha in 1999.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 127,763 1000 ha in 2022.
- How does Southern Africa rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Southern Africa ranks 8th out of 44 regions with data for 2022.
- Is shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.