Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Mongolia

Mongolia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 20.25 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
20.25 1000 ha
Change on year
up 1.7%
World rank
141st
of 214 countries
All-time high
20.25 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
19.91 1000 ha
in 2018
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

051015202015201720192015: 20 1000 ha2016: 19.9 1000 ha2017: 19.9 1000 ha2018: 19.9 1000 ha2019: 20.2 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 Mongolia stood at 20.25 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.7% on the previous year and up 1.4% over five years.

Mongolia ranks 141st of 214 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Mongolia

  1. 138 Fiji 25.96 1000 ha compare
  2. 139 Iceland 22.55 1000 ha compare
  3. 140 Sri Lanka 21.81 1000 ha compare
  4. 142 Hungary 19.62 1000 ha compare
  5. 143 Turks and Caicos Islands 18.6 1000 ha compare
  6. 144 El Salvador 17.7 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Mongolia?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Mongolia was 20.25 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 Mongolia?
The highest recorded value was 20.25 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Mongolia?
The lowest recorded value was 19.91 1000 ha in 2018.
How does Mongolia rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Mongolia ranks 141st out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Mongolia 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.