Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Brazil

Brazil: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 86,887 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
86,887 1000 ha
Change on year
down 2.7%
World rank
3rd
of 198 countries
All-time high
90,280 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
86,887 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100.0k2015201720192015: 90.3k 1000 ha2016: 90.1k 1000 ha2017: 89.8k 1000 ha2018: 89.3k 1000 ha2019: 86.9k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

In 2019, shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Brazil stood at 86,887 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.7% on the previous year and down 3.8% over five years.

Brazil ranks 3rd of 198 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

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

Annual values for Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Brazil, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 90,280 1000 ha —
2016 90,096 1000 ha -0.2%
2017 89,800 1000 ha -0.3%
2018 89,284 1000 ha -0.6%
2019 86,887 1000 ha -2.7%

Brazil compared with similar countries

  • Brazil's 86,887 1000 ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 98.1 1000 ha, 885.7× the median. (49 countries reporting)
  • Brazil's 86,887 1000 ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 47.87 1000 ha, 1815.1× the median. (37 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Brazil

  1. 1 Australia and New Zealand 125,946 1000 ha compare
  2. 2 Australia 125,613 1000 ha compare
  3. 3 United Republic of Tanzania 12,829 1000 ha compare
  4. 4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 6,991 1000 ha compare
  5. 4 Mexico 86,728 1000 ha compare
  6. 5 Argentina 75,455 1000 ha compare
  7. 5 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 5,886 1000 ha compare
  8. 6 Canada 69,856 1000 ha compare
  9. 6 Türkiye 4,700 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Brazil?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Brazil was 86,887 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 Brazil?
The highest recorded value was 90,280 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Brazil?
The lowest recorded value was 86,887 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Brazil rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Brazil ranks 3rd out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Brazil 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.