Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Europe
Europe: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 344,248 1000 ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Europe, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Europe is 344,248 1000 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and down 1.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Europe peaked at 359,140 1000 ha in 2005 and was at its lowest, 338,199 1000 ha, in 2017.
Europe ranks 3rd of 29 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 355,443 1000 ha | 347,839 1000 ha | 359,140 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 348,076 1000 ha | 338,199 1000 ha | 355,970 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 344,786 1000 ha | 342,916 1000 ha | 347,056 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Europe
More environment data for Europe
- Standard Deviation 0.435 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.71 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 57.94 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 101.18 million t (2024)
- Arable land — Area 270,153 1000 ha (2024)
- Country area — Area 2.35 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 15,732 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 7.21 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 5.33 kg/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.38 ha/cap (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Europe?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Europe was 344,248 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest shrub-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 359,140 1000 ha in 2005.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 338,199 1000 ha in 2017.
- How does Europe rank for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Europe ranks 3rd out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is shrub-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this 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 MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 24 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.