Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Norway

Norway: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 4,204 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
4,204 1000 ha
Change on year
up 1.7%
World rank
22nd
of 240 countries
All-time high
4,204 1000 ha
in 2024
All-time low
3,194 1000 ha
in 2001
Years of data
24
2001–2024

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Norway, 2001–2024

01.0k2.0k3.0k4.0k2001201220242001: 3.2k 1000 ha2002: 4.0k 1000 ha2003: 3.9k 1000 ha2004: 3.8k 1000 ha2005: 3.7k 1000 ha2006: 3.8k 1000 ha2007: 3.7k 1000 ha2008: 3.8k 1000 ha2009: 4.0k 1000 ha2010: 3.9k 1000 ha2011: 3.9k 1000 ha2012: 4.0k 1000 ha2013: 4.1k 1000 ha2014: 4.1k 1000 ha2015: 3.9k 1000 ha2016: 4.0k 1000 ha2017: 3.9k 1000 ha2018: 4.0k 1000 ha2019: 4.0k 1000 ha2020: 4.1k 1000 ha2021: 4.1k 1000 ha2022: 4.0k 1000 ha2023: 4.1k 1000 ha2024: 4.2k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Norway recorded 4,204 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from modis in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.

That represents a change of up 1.7% on the previous year and up 2.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Norway peaked at 4,204 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 3,194 1000 ha, in 2001.

Norway ranks 22nd of 240 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 3,764 1000 ha 3,194 1000 ha 4,021 1000 ha 9
2010s 3,984 1000 ha 3,851 1000 ha 4,105 1000 ha 10
2020s 4,107 1000 ha 3,978 1000 ha 4,204 1000 ha 5

Countries ranked near Norway

  1. 19 Spain 5,027 1000 ha compare
  2. 20 Saudi Arabia 4,375 1000 ha compare
  3. 21 Yemen 4,370 1000 ha compare
  4. 23 Kenya 3,985 1000 ha compare
  5. 24 Chile 3,817 1000 ha compare
  6. 25 Peru 3,546 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Norway?
Shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Norway was 4,204 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 Norway?
The highest recorded value was 4,204 1000 ha in 2024.
What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Norway?
The lowest recorded value was 3,194 1000 ha in 2001.
How does Norway rank for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
Norway ranks 22nd out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
Is shrub-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Norway?
Over the last ten years it is up 2.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Norway 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

Indicator
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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.