Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Somalia

Somalia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 40,777 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
40,777 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.2%
World rank
11th
of 214 countries
All-time high
40,945 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
40,684 1000 ha
in 2018
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k2015201720192015: 40.9k 1000 ha2016: 40.8k 1000 ha2017: 40.8k 1000 ha2018: 40.7k 1000 ha2019: 40.8k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

The most recent figure for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Somalia is 40,777 1000 ha, measured in 2019.

The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and down 0.4% over five years.

Somalia ranks 11th of 214 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

Countries ranked near Somalia

  1. 8 Botswana 45,305 1000 ha compare
  2. 9 Ethiopia 44,716 1000 ha compare
  3. 10 Namibia 42,616 1000 ha compare
  4. 12 Kenya 28,220 1000 ha compare
  5. 13 Angola 18,343 1000 ha compare
  6. 14 Sudan 16,790 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 242 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Somalia?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Somalia was 40,777 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 Somalia?
The highest recorded value was 40,945 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Somalia?
The lowest recorded value was 40,684 1000 ha in 2018.
How does Somalia rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Somalia ranks 11th out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Somalia 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.