Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Northern America
Northern America: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 177,631 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Northern America, 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 Northern America is 177,631 1000 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.6% on the previous year and down 2.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Northern America peaked at 190,927 1000 ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 175,687 1000 ha, in 2022.
Northern America ranks 7th of 29 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 187,139 1000 ha | 181,665 1000 ha | 190,927 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 182,425 1000 ha | 179,022 1000 ha | 185,505 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 178,342 1000 ha | 175,687 1000 ha | 182,531 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
More environment data for Northern America
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 40.32 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 11.92 g/Int$ (2024)
- Country area — Area 2.59 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area — Area 1.83 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Agriculture — Area 493,252 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Area 478,582 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 26.09 % (2024)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 895.27 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area 192,972 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 0.7 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Northern America?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Northern America was 177,631 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 Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 190,927 1000 ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 175,687 1000 ha in 2022.
- How does Northern America rank for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Northern America ranks 7th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is shrub-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Northern America 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.
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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.