Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Lesotho
Lesotho: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 73.5 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Lesotho, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Lesotho recorded 73.5 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019.
That represents a change of down 0.2% over five years.
That places Lesotho 104th out of 198 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Lesotho, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73.65 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 73.55 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 73.51 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 73.47 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 73.5 1000 ha | +0.0% |
Lesotho compared with similar countries
- Lesotho's 73.5 1000 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 331.72 1000 ha, 22% of the median. (40 countries reporting)
- Lesotho's 73.5 1000 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,408 1000 ha, 2% of the median. (44 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Lesotho
- 101 Jordan 86.36 1000 ha compare
- 102 Tajikistan 81.34 1000 ha compare
- 103 Papua New Guinea 80.08 1000 ha compare
- 105 Montenegro 71.4 1000 ha compare
- 106 Djibouti 70.31 1000 ha compare
- 107 Japan 70.17 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Lesotho
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.284 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 0.783 °C (2025)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual -0.521 % 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 -2.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Building (Energy) (Mt CO2e), annual -0.4197 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Lesotho?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Lesotho was 73.5 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 Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 73.65 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 73.47 1000 ha in 2018.
- How does Lesotho rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- Lesotho ranks 104th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Lesotho 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.