Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Libya

Libya: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 439.18 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
439.18 1000 ha
Change on year
up 8.9%
World rank
76th
of 214 countries
All-time high
439.18 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
360.06 1000 ha
in 2017
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

01002003004002015201720192015: 420.5 1000 ha2016: 422.4 1000 ha2017: 360.1 1000 ha2018: 403.2 1000 ha2019: 439.2 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 Libya stood at 439.18 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of up 8.9% on the previous year and up 4.4% over five years.

Libya ranks 76th of 214 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Libya

  1. 73 Dominican Republic 496.07 1000 ha compare
  2. 74 Myanmar 480.18 1000 ha compare
  3. 75 Albania 444.54 1000 ha compare
  4. 77 Syrian Arab Republic 423.34 1000 ha compare
  5. 78 Rwanda 396.23 1000 ha compare
  6. 79 Haiti 363.58 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Libya?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Libya was 439.18 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 Libya?
The highest recorded value was 439.18 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Libya?
The lowest recorded value was 360.06 1000 ha in 2017.
How does Libya rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Libya ranks 76th out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Libya 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.