Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 1,594 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2019, shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Saudi Arabia stood at 1,594 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is up 3.4% on the previous year and up 18.1% over five years.
That places Saudi Arabia 50th out of 198 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,349 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 1,359 1000 ha | +0.7% |
| 2017 | 1,365 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 1,541 1000 ha | +12.9% |
| 2019 | 1,594 1000 ha | +3.4% |
Saudi Arabia compared with similar countries
- Saudi Arabia's 1,594 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 13.18 1000 ha, 120.9× the median. (66 countries reporting)
- Saudi Arabia's 1,594 1000 ha is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 187.41 1000 ha, 8.5× the median. (21 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Saudi Arabia
More environment data for Saudi Arabia
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -52.52 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -27.86 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.424 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.58 °C (2025)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 2.53 % 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 9.62 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Saudi Arabia?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Saudi Arabia was 1,594 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 Saudi Arabia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,594 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Saudi Arabia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,349 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Saudi Arabia rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- Saudi Arabia ranks 50th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Saudi Arabia 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.