Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 46,280 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
46,280 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.8%
Rank
15th
of 28 groups
All-time high
50,507 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
46,280 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

020.0k40.0k60.0k2015201720192015: 50.5k 1000 ha2016: 48.4k 1000 ha2017: 47.4k 1000 ha2018: 46.7k 1000 ha2019: 46.3k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Eastern Europe recorded 46,280 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is down 0.8% on the previous year and down 8.4% over five years.

That places Eastern Europe 15th out of 28 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Eastern Europe

  1. 12 Kenya 28,220 1000 ha compare
  2. 13 Angola 18,343 1000 ha compare
  3. 14 Sudan 16,790 1000 ha compare
  4. 15 Mali 16,451 1000 ha compare
  5. 16 South Sudan 15,930 1000 ha compare
  6. 17 Chad 15,553 1000 ha compare
  7. 18 Nigeria 14,663 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Eastern Europe?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Eastern Europe was 46,280 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 Eastern Europe?
The highest recorded value was 50,507 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Eastern Europe?
The lowest recorded value was 46,280 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Eastern Europe rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Eastern Europe ranks 15th out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Eastern Europe 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

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.