Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Norway
Norway: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 4,204 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Norway, 2001–2024
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 21st of 223 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Norway, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3,194 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 4,021 1000 ha | +25.9% |
| 2003 | 3,928 1000 ha | -2.3% |
| 2004 | 3,773 1000 ha | -3.9% |
| 2005 | 3,730 1000 ha | -1.1% |
| 2006 | 3,779 1000 ha | +1.3% |
| 2007 | 3,721 1000 ha | -1.5% |
| 2008 | 3,778 1000 ha | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 3,951 1000 ha | +4.6% |
| 2010 | 3,934 1000 ha | -0.4% |
| 2011 | 3,851 1000 ha | -2.1% |
| 2012 | 3,987 1000 ha | +3.5% |
| 2013 | 4,087 1000 ha | +2.5% |
| 2014 | 4,105 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 3,900 1000 ha | -5.0% |
| 2016 | 3,975 1000 ha | +1.9% |
| 2017 | 3,912 1000 ha | -1.6% |
| 2018 | 4,046 1000 ha | +3.4% |
| 2019 | 4,040 1000 ha | -0.2% |
| 2020 | 4,088 1000 ha | +1.2% |
| 2021 | 4,132 1000 ha | +1.1% |
| 2022 | 3,978 1000 ha | -3.7% |
| 2023 | 4,131 1000 ha | +3.8% |
| 2024 | 4,204 1000 ha | +1.7% |
Norway compared with similar countries
- Norway's 4,204 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 0.01 1000 ha, 420360.0× the median. (73 countries reporting)
- Norway's 4,204 1000 ha is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 0.06 1000 ha, 70060.0× the median. (51 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Norway changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | +25.9% | 3,194 1000 ha | 4,021 1000 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | 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
More environment data for Norway
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 0.9857 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 0.8118 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.738 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.52 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual -3.08 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate -0.28 % change on previous year (2024)
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 21st out of 223 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
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.