Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Malta
Malta: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 0.76 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Malta, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Malta is 0.76 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of down 1.3% over five years.
Malta ranks 165th of 198 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Malta, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 0.77 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 0.77 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.76 1000 ha | -1.3% |
| 2018 | 0.76 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.76 1000 ha | +0.0% |
Malta compared with similar countries
- Malta's 0.76 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 13.18 1000 ha, 6% of the median. (66 countries reporting)
- Malta's 0.76 1000 ha is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 187.41 1000 ha, 0% of the median. (21 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Malta
- 162 Saint Lucia 0.91 1000 ha compare
- 163 Czechia 0.9 1000 ha compare
- 164 Cayman Islands 0.8 1000 ha compare
- 166 Mauritius 0.73 1000 ha compare
- 167 San Marino 0.66 1000 ha compare
- 168 Slovakia 0.59 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Malta
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -1.15 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -1.15 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.365 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.16 °C (2025)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 0.8269 % 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 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Malta?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Malta was 0.76 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 Malta?
- The highest recorded value was 0.77 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Malta?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.76 1000 ha in 2017.
- How does Malta rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- Malta ranks 165th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Malta 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.