Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 80.08 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
80.08 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.4%
World rank
103rd
of 198 countries
All-time high
87.26 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
80.08 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Papua New Guinea, 2015–2019

0204060802015201720192015: 87.3 1000 ha2016: 83.1 1000 ha2017: 81.6 1000 ha2018: 80.4 1000 ha2019: 80.1 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Papua New Guinea recorded 80.08 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 0.4% on the previous year and down 8.2% over five years.

That places Papua New Guinea 103rd out of 198 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Papua New Guinea, year by year

Annual values for Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Papua New Guinea, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 87.26 1000 ha —
2016 83.12 1000 ha -4.7%
2017 81.62 1000 ha -1.8%
2018 80.4 1000 ha -1.5%
2019 80.08 1000 ha -0.4%

Papua New Guinea compared with similar countries

  • Papua New Guinea's 80.08 1000 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 331.72 1000 ha, 24% of the median. (40 countries reporting)
  • Papua New Guinea's 80.08 1000 ha is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 27.26 1000 ha, 2.9× the median. (18 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea

  1. 100 Palestine 98.01 1000 ha compare
  2. 101 Jordan 86.36 1000 ha compare
  3. 102 Tajikistan 81.34 1000 ha compare
  4. 104 Lesotho 73.5 1000 ha compare
  5. 105 Montenegro 71.4 1000 ha compare
  6. 106 Djibouti 70.31 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Papua New Guinea?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Papua New Guinea was 80.08 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 Papua New Guinea?
The highest recorded value was 87.26 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Papua New Guinea?
The lowest recorded value was 80.08 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Papua New Guinea rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Papua New Guinea ranks 103rd out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Papua New Guinea 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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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.