Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS in Western Sahara

Western Sahara: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS was 102.75 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
102.75 1000 ha
Change on year
down 12.5%
World rank
108th
of 214 countries
All-time high
135.54 1000 ha
in 2017
All-time low
68.45 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

0501001502015201720192015: 68.5 1000 ha2016: 132.6 1000 ha2017: 135.5 1000 ha2018: 117.4 1000 ha2019: 102.8 1000 ha

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

Analysis

In 2019, shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Western Sahara stood at 102.75 1000 ha.

That represents a change of down 12.5% on the previous year and up 50.1% over five years.

Western Sahara ranks 108th of 214 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Western Sahara

  1. 105 Eswatini 116.59 1000 ha compare
  2. 106 Melanesia 109.51 1000 ha compare
  3. 107 Romania 107.71 1000 ha compare
  4. 109 Azerbaijan 98.1 1000 ha compare
  5. 110 Palestine 98.01 1000 ha compare
  6. 111 Jordan 86.36 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Western Sahara?
Shrub-covered areas — area from cgls in Western Sahara was 102.75 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 Sahara?
The highest recorded value was 135.54 1000 ha in 2017.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from cgls recorded in Western Sahara?
The lowest recorded value was 68.45 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Western Sahara rank for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
Western Sahara ranks 108th out of 214 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Western Sahara 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.