Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Western Asia

Western Asia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 11,868 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
11,868 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.5%
Rank
22nd
of 28 groups
All-time high
11,868 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
11,603 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Western Asia, 2015–2019

02.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k12.5k2015201720192015: 11.6k 1000 ha2016: 11.6k 1000 ha2017: 11.6k 1000 ha2018: 11.8k 1000 ha2019: 11.9k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Western Asia recorded 11,868 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 2.3% over five years.

Western Asia ranks 22nd of 28 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

Countries ranked near Western Asia

  1. 19 United Republic of Tanzania 12,829 1000 ha compare
  2. 20 India 12,575 1000 ha compare
  3. 21 Zimbabwe 10,011 1000 ha compare
  4. 22 Mozambique 9,105 1000 ha compare
  5. 23 Burkina Faso 8,499 1000 ha compare
  6. 24 Pakistan 8,279 1000 ha compare
  7. 25 China 8,116 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 242 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Western Asia?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Western Asia was 11,868 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 Western Asia?
The highest recorded value was 11,868 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Western Asia?
The lowest recorded value was 11,603 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Western Asia rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Western Asia ranks 22nd out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Western Asia 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.