Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Nigeria
Nigeria: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 14,663 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Nigeria, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Nigeria recorded 14,663 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.4% over five years.
That places Nigeria 19th out of 198 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Nigeria, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14,728 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 14,708 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 14,695 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 14,678 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 14,663 1000 ha | -0.1% |
Nigeria compared with similar countries
- Nigeria's 14,663 1000 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 331.72 1000 ha, 44.2× the median. (40 countries reporting)
- Nigeria's 14,663 1000 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,408 1000 ha, 4.3× the median. (44 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Nigeria
More environment data for Nigeria
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -5.73 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -5.07 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.281 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.15 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 3.78 % 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 0.4617 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Nigeria?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Nigeria was 14,663 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 Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 14,728 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,663 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Nigeria rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- Nigeria ranks 19th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Nigeria 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.