Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in South Sudan

South Sudan: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 15,930 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
15,930 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.0%
World rank
16th
of 214 countries
All-time high
15,974 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
15,930 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

05.0k10.0k15.0k2015201720192015: 16.0k 1000 ha2016: 16.0k 1000 ha2017: 15.9k 1000 ha2018: 15.9k 1000 ha2019: 15.9k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

South Sudan recorded 15,930 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is down 0.3% over five years.

That places South Sudan 16th out of 214 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.

Countries ranked near South Sudan

  1. 13 Angola 18,343 1000 ha compare
  2. 14 Sudan 16,790 1000 ha compare
  3. 15 Mali 16,451 1000 ha compare
  4. 17 Chad 15,553 1000 ha compare
  5. 18 Nigeria 14,663 1000 ha compare
  6. 19 United Republic of Tanzania 12,829 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in South Sudan?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in South Sudan was 15,930 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 Sudan?
The highest recorded value was 15,974 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in South Sudan?
The lowest recorded value was 15,930 1000 ha in 2019.
How does South Sudan rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
South Sudan ranks 16th out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this South Sudan 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.