Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea: Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded was 556.02 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
556.02 1000 ha
Change on year
up 2.4%
World rank
29th
of 194 countries
All-time high
556.02 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
380.88 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Papua New Guinea, 2015–2019

02004006002015201720192015: 380.9 1000 ha2016: 444.9 1000 ha2017: 483.5 1000 ha2018: 543.2 1000 ha2019: 556 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Papua New Guinea recorded 556.02 1000 ha for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.4% on the previous year and up 46.0% over five years.

That places Papua New Guinea 29th out of 194 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.

Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Papua New Guinea, year by year

Annual values for Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded — Area from CGLS in Papua New Guinea, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 380.88 1000 ha
2016 444.93 1000 ha +16.8%
2017 483.53 1000 ha +8.7%
2018 543.22 1000 ha +12.3%
2019 556.02 1000 ha +2.4%

Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea

  1. 26 Nicaragua 743.21 1000 ha compare
  2. 27 Cameroon 724.64 1000 ha compare
  3. 28 Uganda 587.36 1000 ha compare
  4. 30 Belarus 550.37 1000 ha compare
  5. 31 Honduras 459.69 1000 ha compare
  6. 32 Peru 435.66 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Papua New Guinea?
Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Papua New Guinea was 556.02 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded recorded in Papua New Guinea?
The highest recorded value was 556.02 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded recorded in Papua New Guinea?
The lowest recorded value was 380.88 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Papua New Guinea rank for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
Papua New Guinea ranks 29th out of 194 countries with data for 2019.
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 Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
238 places, 1,190 data points, 2015–2019
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.