Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 125,946 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Australia and New Zealand, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2019, shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Australia and New Zealand stood at 125,946 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.7% on the previous year and down 7.2% over five years.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 1st of 198 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135,774 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 131,522 1000 ha | -3.1% |
| 2017 | 129,252 1000 ha | -1.7% |
| 2018 | 126,870 1000 ha | -1.8% |
| 2019 | 125,946 1000 ha | -0.7% |
Countries ranked near Australia and New Zealand
More environment data for Australia and New Zealand
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -4.39 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -5.87 Percentage change (2025)
- Temperature change 1.39 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.335 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 4.99 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 2.98 million t (2024)
- Cropland — Area 32,246 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 16.72 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 7.63 g/Int$ (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Australia and New Zealand?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Australia and New Zealand was 125,946 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 Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 135,774 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 125,946 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 1st out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand 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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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.