Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Greece

Greece: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 1,780 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
1,780 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.0%
World rank
54th
of 214 countries
All-time high
1,783 1000 ha
in 2016
All-time low
1,777 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

05001.0k1.5k2.0k2015201720192015: 1.8k 1000 ha2016: 1.8k 1000 ha2017: 1.8k 1000 ha2018: 1.8k 1000 ha2019: 1.8k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Greece recorded 1,780 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019.

The figure is up 0.2% over five years.

That places Greece 54th out of 214 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.

Countries ranked near Greece

  1. 51 Guinea 2,353 1000 ha compare
  2. 52 Paraguay 2,228 1000 ha compare
  3. 53 Caribbean 1,955 1000 ha compare
  4. 55 Saudi Arabia 1,594 1000 ha compare
  5. 56 Portugal 1,589 1000 ha compare
  6. 57 Malawi 1,528 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Greece?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Greece was 1,780 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 Greece?
The highest recorded value was 1,783 1000 ha in 2016.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Greece?
The lowest recorded value was 1,777 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Greece rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Greece ranks 54th out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Greece 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.