Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in China
China: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 8,116 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in China, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in China is 8,116 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.7% on the previous year and down 3.3% over five years.
That places China 25th out of 198 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in China, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8,395 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 8,267 1000 ha | -1.5% |
| 2017 | 8,188 1000 ha | -1.0% |
| 2018 | 8,172 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 8,116 1000 ha | -0.7% |
China compared with similar countries
- China's 8,116 1000 ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 98.1 1000 ha, 82.7× the median. (49 countries reporting)
- China's 8,116 1000 ha is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 27.26 1000 ha, 297.8× the median. (18 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near China
- 22 Mozambique 9,105 1000 ha compare
- 22 Caribbean 1,955 1000 ha compare
- 23 Burkina Faso 8,499 1000 ha compare
- 23 Côte d'Ivoire 1,448 1000 ha compare
- 24 Pakistan 8,279 1000 ha compare
- 26 Cabo Verde 186.82 1000 ha compare
- 26 China, mainland 8,109 1000 ha compare
- 27 Spain 6,632 1000 ha compare
- 28 Senegal 6,384 1000 ha compare
More environment data for China
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.279 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.92 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 5.29 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 0.8065 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate -0.2517 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in China?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in China was 8,116 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 China?
- The highest recorded value was 8,395 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,116 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does China rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- China ranks 25th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this China 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.