Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Russian Federation

Russian Federation: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 45,937 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
45,937 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.8%
World rank
7th
of 214 countries
All-time high
50,162 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
45,937 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

020.0k40.0k60.0k2015201720192015: 50.2k 1000 ha2016: 48.0k 1000 ha2017: 47.0k 1000 ha2018: 46.3k 1000 ha2019: 45.9k 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 Russian Federation stood at 45,937 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.8% on the previous year and down 8.4% over five years.

Russian Federation ranks 7th of 214 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

Countries ranked near Russian Federation

  1. 4 Mexico 86,728 1000 ha compare
  2. 5 Argentina 75,455 1000 ha compare
  3. 6 Canada 69,856 1000 ha compare
  4. 8 Botswana 45,305 1000 ha compare
  5. 9 Ethiopia 44,716 1000 ha compare
  6. 10 Namibia 42,616 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Russian Federation?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Russian Federation was 45,937 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 Russian Federation?
The highest recorded value was 50,162 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Russian Federation?
The lowest recorded value was 45,937 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Russian Federation rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Russian Federation ranks 7th out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Russian Federation 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.