Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Palestine, State of

Palestine, State of: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 98.01 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
98.01 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.1%
World rank
100th
of 198 countries
All-time high
98.82 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
98.01 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Palestine, State of, 2015–2019

0204060801002015201720192015: 98.8 1000 ha2016: 98.6 1000 ha2017: 98.6 1000 ha2018: 98.1 1000 ha2019: 98 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 Palestine, State of is 98.01 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.8% over five years.

That places Palestine, State of 100th out of 198 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Palestine, State of, year by year

Annual values for Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Palestine, State of, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 98.82 1000 ha
2016 98.64 1000 ha -0.2%
2017 98.62 1000 ha -0.0%
2018 98.12 1000 ha -0.5%
2019 98.01 1000 ha -0.1%

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  6. 103 Papua New Guinea 80.08 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Palestine, State of?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Palestine, State of was 98.01 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 Palestine, State of?
The highest recorded value was 98.82 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Palestine, State of?
The lowest recorded value was 98.01 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Palestine, State of rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Palestine, State of ranks 100th out of 198 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Palestine, State of 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.