Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Western Europe

Western Europe: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 1,211 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
1,211 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.0%
Rank
25th
of 26 groups
All-time high
1,217 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
1,211 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

02505007501.0k1.2k2015201720192015: 1.2k 1000 ha2016: 1.2k 1000 ha2017: 1.2k 1000 ha2018: 1.2k 1000 ha2019: 1.2k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Western Europe recorded 1,211 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.5% over five years.

That places Western Europe 25th out of 26 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Western Europe, year by year

Annual values for Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Western Europe, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 1,217 1000 ha —
2016 1,212 1000 ha -0.4%
2017 1,212 1000 ha +0.0%
2018 1,212 1000 ha -0.1%
2019 1,211 1000 ha -0.0%

Countries ranked near Western Europe

  1. 22 Mozambique 9,105 1000 ha compare
  2. 22 Caribbean 1,955 1000 ha compare
  3. 23 Burkina Faso 8,499 1000 ha compare
  4. 23 Côte d'Ivoire 1,448 1000 ha compare
  5. 24 Pakistan 8,279 1000 ha compare
  6. 25 China 8,116 1000 ha compare
  7. 26 Cabo Verde 186.82 1000 ha compare
  8. 26 China, mainland 8,109 1000 ha compare
  9. 27 Spain 6,632 1000 ha compare
  10. 28 Senegal 6,384 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Western Europe?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Western Europe was 1,211 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 Europe?
The highest recorded value was 1,217 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Western Europe?
The lowest recorded value was 1,211 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Western Europe rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Western Europe ranks 25th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Western Europe 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.