Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 34.54 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Costa Rica, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 34.54 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.9% on the previous year and down 9.4% over five years.
Costa Rica ranks 120th of 198 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38.14 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 36.45 1000 ha | -4.4% |
| 2017 | 35.61 1000 ha | -2.3% |
| 2018 | 34.87 1000 ha | -2.1% |
| 2019 | 34.54 1000 ha | -0.9% |
Costa Rica compared with similar countries
- Costa Rica's 34.54 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 13.18 1000 ha, 2.6× the median. (66 countries reporting)
- Costa Rica's 34.54 1000 ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 47.87 1000 ha, 72% of the median. (37 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Costa Rica
More environment data for Costa Rica
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 2.9 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 2.71 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.257 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.61 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 2.09 % 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 -0.3048 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Costa Rica?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Costa Rica was 34.54 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 Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 38.14 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 34.54 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Costa Rica rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- Costa Rica ranks 120th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Costa Rica 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.