Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in South America
South America: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 186,716 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in South America, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
South America recorded 186,716 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of down 1.3% on the previous year and down 1.0% over five years.
That places South America 4th out of 26 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in South America, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 188,670 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 189,125 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 189,766 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 189,211 1000 ha | -0.3% |
| 2019 | 186,716 1000 ha | -1.3% |
Countries ranked near South America
- 1 Australia and New Zealand 125,946 1000 ha compare
- 2 Australia 125,613 1000 ha compare
- 3 Brazil 86,887 1000 ha compare
- 3 United Republic of Tanzania 12,829 1000 ha compare
- 4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 6,991 1000 ha compare
- 4 Mexico 86,728 1000 ha compare
- 5 Argentina 75,455 1000 ha compare
- 5 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 5,886 1000 ha compare
- 6 Canada 69,856 1000 ha compare
- 6 Türkiye 4,700 1000 ha compare
- 7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 4,574 1000 ha compare
- 7 Russian Federation 45,937 1000 ha compare
More environment data for South America
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -4.98 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -6.52 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.218 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.23 °C (2025)
- Roundwood — Production 477.72 million m3 (2024)
- Roundwood, non-coniferous — Production 379.32 million m3 (2024)
- Roundwood, coniferous — Production 98.40 million m3 (2024)
- Roundwood — Export value 589,290 1000 USD (2024)
- Roundwood — Export quantity 4.28 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in South America?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in South America was 186,716 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 South America?
- The highest recorded value was 189,766 1000 ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 186,716 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does South America rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- South America ranks 4th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this South America 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.