Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Asia

Asia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 62,812 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
62,812 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.3%
Rank
1st
of 18 groups
All-time high
63,657 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
62,812 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Asia, 2015–2019

020.0k40.0k60.0k2015201720192015: 63.7k 1000 ha2016: 63.4k 1000 ha2017: 63.2k 1000 ha2018: 63.0k 1000 ha2019: 62.8k 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Asia recorded 62,812 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and down 1.3% over five years.

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Asia, year by year

Annual values for Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Asia, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 63,657 1000 ha —
2016 63,402 1000 ha -0.4%
2017 63,241 1000 ha -0.3%
2018 63,011 1000 ha -0.4%
2019 62,812 1000 ha -0.3%

Countries ranked near Asia

  1. 1 Australia and New Zealand 125,946 1000 ha compare
  2. 2 Australia 125,613 1000 ha compare
  3. 3 Brazil 86,887 1000 ha compare
  4. 3 United Republic of Tanzania 12,829 1000 ha compare
  5. 4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 6,991 1000 ha compare
  6. 4 Mexico 86,728 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 242 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Asia?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Asia was 62,812 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Asia?
The highest recorded value was 63,657 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Asia?
The lowest recorded value was 62,812 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Asia rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Asia ranks 1st out of 18 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Asia data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
242 places, 1,210 data points, 2015–2019
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.