Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Guinea

Guinea: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 2,353 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
2,353 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.1%
World rank
47th
of 198 countries
All-time high
2,362 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
2,353 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

05001.0k1.5k2.0k2.5k2015201720192015: 2.4k 1000 ha2016: 2.4k 1000 ha2017: 2.4k 1000 ha2018: 2.4k 1000 ha2019: 2.4k 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 Guinea stood at 2,353 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.4% over five years.

Guinea ranks 47th of 198 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Guinea, year by year

Annual values for Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Guinea, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 2,362 1000 ha —
2016 2,358 1000 ha -0.2%
2017 2,356 1000 ha -0.1%
2018 2,354 1000 ha -0.1%
2019 2,353 1000 ha -0.1%

Guinea compared with similar countries

  • Guinea's 2,353 1000 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 331.72 1000 ha, 7.1× the median. (40 countries reporting)
  • Guinea's 2,353 1000 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,408 1000 ha, 69% of the median. (44 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Guinea

  1. 44 Italy 2,913 1000 ha compare
  2. 45 Benin 2,730 1000 ha compare
  3. 46 Niger 2,701 1000 ha compare
  4. 48 Paraguay 2,228 1000 ha compare
  5. 49 Greece 1,780 1000 ha compare
  6. 50 Saudi Arabia 1,594 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Guinea?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Guinea was 2,353 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 Guinea?
The highest recorded value was 2,362 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Guinea?
The lowest recorded value was 2,353 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Guinea rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Guinea ranks 47th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Guinea 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.