Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Myanmar

Myanmar: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 480.18 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
480.18 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.5%
World rank
74th
of 214 countries
All-time high
505.39 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
480.18 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

02004006002015201720192015: 505.4 1000 ha2016: 495.2 1000 ha2017: 488.4 1000 ha2018: 482.4 1000 ha2019: 480.2 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 Myanmar stood at 480.18 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.5% on the previous year and down 5.0% over five years.

Myanmar ranks 74th of 214 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Myanmar

  1. 71 Iraq 598.74 1000 ha compare
  2. 72 Indonesia 510.22 1000 ha compare
  3. 73 Dominican Republic 496.07 1000 ha compare
  4. 75 Albania 444.54 1000 ha compare
  5. 76 Libya 439.18 1000 ha compare
  6. 77 Syrian Arab Republic 423.34 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Myanmar?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Myanmar was 480.18 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 Myanmar?
The highest recorded value was 505.39 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Myanmar?
The lowest recorded value was 480.18 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Myanmar rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Myanmar ranks 74th out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Myanmar 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.