Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 2.93 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Papua New Guinea, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Papua New Guinea recorded 2.93 1000 ha for shrub-covered areas — area from modis in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 24 years on record.
The figure is down 16.5% on the previous year and down 70.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Papua New Guinea peaked at 12.44 1000 ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 2.93 1000 ha, in 2024.
Papua New Guinea ranks 99th of 240 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 10.33 1000 ha | 8.96 1000 ha | 12.44 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 8.5 1000 ha | 7.18 1000 ha | 10.41 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4.42 1000 ha | 2.93 1000 ha | 7.33 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea
More environment data for Papua New Guinea
- Inland waters — Area 998 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 0.42 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 13.52 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 190 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 62.99 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 885 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 23.49 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 330 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.11 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 2.68 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Papua New Guinea?
- Shrub-covered areas — area from modis in Papua New Guinea was 2.93 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 Papua New Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 12.44 1000 ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest shrub-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.93 1000 ha in 2024.
- How does Papua New Guinea rank for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 99th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is shrub-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is down 70.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Papua New Guinea 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.