Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 110,168 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Southern Africa, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Southern Africa recorded 110,168 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.6% over five years.
Southern Africa ranks 8th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110,810 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 110,544 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 110,212 1000 ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 110,154 1000 ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 110,168 1000 ha | +0.0% |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
- 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
- 8 Botswana 45,305 1000 ha compare
- 8 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 3,008 1000 ha compare
- 9 Ethiopia 44,716 1000 ha compare
- 9 Syrian Arab Republic 423.34 1000 ha compare
- 10 Namibia 42,616 1000 ha compare
- 10 Viet Nam 133.91 1000 ha compare
- 11 Somalia 40,777 1000 ha compare
- 11 Melanesia 109.51 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Southern Africa
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 4.17 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 7.61 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.282 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 0.892 °C (2025)
- Wood fuel, coniferous — Production 770,000 m3 (2024)
- Roundwood, non-coniferous — Production 27.42 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 17.80 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Production 17.26 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Import quantity 161,260 m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Southern Africa?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Southern Africa was 110,168 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 Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 110,810 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 110,154 1000 ha in 2018.
- How does Southern Africa rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
- Southern Africa ranks 8th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.