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 198 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 198 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Somalia, year by year

Annual values for Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Somalia, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 40,945 1000 ha —
2016 40,830 1000 ha -0.3%
2017 40,801 1000 ha -0.1%
2018 40,684 1000 ha -0.3%
2019 40,777 1000 ha +0.2%

Somalia compared with similar countries

  • Somalia's 40,777 1000 ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 4,162 1000 ha, 9.8× the median. (22 countries reporting)
  • Somalia's 40,777 1000 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,408 1000 ha, 12.0× the median. (44 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Somalia

  1. 8 Botswana 45,305 1000 ha compare
  2. 8 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 3,008 1000 ha compare
  3. 9 Ethiopia 44,716 1000 ha compare
  4. 9 Syrian Arab Republic 423.34 1000 ha compare
  5. 10 Namibia 42,616 1000 ha compare
  6. 10 Viet Nam 133.91 1000 ha compare
  7. 11 Melanesia 109.51 1000 ha compare
  8. 12 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 49.66 1000 ha compare
  9. 12 Kenya 28,220 1000 ha compare
  10. 13 South Africa 22,057 1000 ha compare
  11. 13 Timor-Leste 36.88 1000 ha compare
  12. 14 Angola 18,343 1000 ha compare
  13. 14 Lao People's Democratic Republic 3.63 1000 ha compare

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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 198 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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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.