Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Ghana
Ghana: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 6,294 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Ghana, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Ghana recorded 6,294 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 0.1% on the previous year and down 1.0% over five years.
That places Ghana 29th out of 198 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Ghana, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,360 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 6,350 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 6,339 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2018 | 6,303 1000 ha | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 6,294 1000 ha | -0.1% |
Ghana compared with similar countries
- Ghana's 6,294 1000 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 331.72 1000 ha, 19.0× the median. (40 countries reporting)
- Ghana's 6,294 1000 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,408 1000 ha, 1.8× the median. (44 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Ghana
- 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
- 30 Turkmenistan 6,242 1000 ha compare
- 31 Madagascar 5,817 1000 ha compare
- 32 Morocco 5,796 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Ghana
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -13.57 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -11.89 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.26 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.34 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate -27.43 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 2.72 % 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 0.8796 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Ghana?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Ghana was 6,294 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 Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 6,360 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,294 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Ghana rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- Ghana ranks 29th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Ghana 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.