Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Malta

Malta: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 0.76 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
0.76 1000 ha
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
177th
of 214 countries
All-time high
0.77 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
0.76 1000 ha
in 2017
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

00.20.40.60.82015201720192015: 0.77 1000 ha2016: 0.77 1000 ha2017: 0.76 1000 ha2018: 0.76 1000 ha2019: 0.76 1000 ha

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 177th of 214 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

Countries ranked near Malta

  1. 174 Saint Lucia 0.91 1000 ha compare
  2. 175 Czechia 0.9 1000 ha compare
  3. 176 Cayman Islands 0.8 1000 ha compare
  4. 178 Mauritius 0.73 1000 ha compare
  5. 179 San Marino 0.66 1000 ha compare
  6. 180 Slovakia 0.59 1000 ha compare

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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 177th out of 214 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

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.