Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 49.66 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
49.66 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.2%
Rank
12th
of 18 regions
All-time high
50.53 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
49.66 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 2015–2019

02040602015201720192015: 50.5 1000 ha2016: 50.1 1000 ha2017: 50 1000 ha2018: 49.8 1000 ha2019: 49.7 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 Democratic People's Republic of Korea stood at 49.66 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and down 1.7% over five years.

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, year by year

Annual values for Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 50.53 1000 ha
2016 50.14 1000 ha -0.8%
2017 49.96 1000 ha -0.4%
2018 49.78 1000 ha -0.4%
2019 49.66 1000 ha -0.2%

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Democratic People's Republic of Korea was 49.66 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 Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
The highest recorded value was 50.53 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
The lowest recorded value was 49.66 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Democratic People's Republic of Korea rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Democratic People's Republic of Korea ranks 12th out of 18 regions with data for 2019.
Where does this Democratic People's Republic of Korea 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.