Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Guyana

Guyana: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 52.04 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
52.04 1000 ha
Change on year
down 1.7%
World rank
120th
of 214 countries
All-time high
59.12 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
52.04 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

02040602015201720192015: 59.1 1000 ha2016: 56.5 1000 ha2017: 54.6 1000 ha2018: 53 1000 ha2019: 52 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Guyana recorded 52.04 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 1.7% on the previous year and down 12.0% over five years.

That places Guyana 120th out of 214 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Guyana

  1. 117 Japan 70.17 1000 ha compare
  2. 118 Kyrgyzstan 69.69 1000 ha compare
  3. 119 Republic of Korea 59.74 1000 ha compare
  4. 121 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 49.66 1000 ha compare
  5. 122 Belize 48.82 1000 ha compare
  6. 123 Panama 47.87 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Guyana?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Guyana was 52.04 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 Guyana?
The highest recorded value was 59.12 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Guyana?
The lowest recorded value was 52.04 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Guyana rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Guyana ranks 120th out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Guyana 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.