Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded — Area from MODIS by country

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Countries reporting
240
Highest
41,355 1000 ha
Russian Federation
Lowest
0 1000 ha
Tokelau
Median
14.57 1000 ha
Years covered
24
2001–2024
Data points
6,390

What the numbers show

Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded — Area from MODIS is currently reported for 240 countries. The highest value is 41,355 1000 ha in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0 1000 ha in Tokelau.

The median across all reporting countries is 14.57 1000 ha, and the mean is 485.67 1000 ha.

Over the past decade 137 countries rose and 88 fell. The largest increase was in Burkina Faso (up 1,053.4%), and the largest decrease in Tokelau (down 100.0%).

Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 41,355 1000 ha 2024 up 0.9% falling
2 Canada 40,547 1000 ha 2024 down 3.1% falling
3 Brazil 2,665 1000 ha 2024 up 14.7% rising
4 China 2,315 1000 ha 2024 up 19.9% rising
5 China, mainland 2,283 1000 ha 2024 up 20.2% rising
6 Chile 1,984 1000 ha 2024 down 4.6% falling
7 Argentina 1,659 1000 ha 2024 down 31.7% falling
8 Australia and New Zealand 1,218 1000 ha 2024 up 14.5% flat
9 Australia 1,045 1000 ha 2024 up 14.4% rising
10 India 1,020 1000 ha 2024 up 68.4% rising
11 South Sudan 992.34 1000 ha 2024 up 197.1% volatile
12 Viet Nam 903.29 1000 ha 2024 up 6.0% rising
13 Norway 858.12 1000 ha 2024 down 21.5% falling
14 Kazakhstan 827.54 1000 ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
15 Zambia 746.6 1000 ha 2024 down 21.8% falling
16 Bangladesh 735.38 1000 ha 2024 down 2.9% flat
17 Türkiye 560.83 1000 ha 2024 up 71.9% rising
18 Democratic Republic of the Congo 545.63 1000 ha 2024 up 11.2% rising
19 Indonesia 545.31 1000 ha 2024 down 4.6% flat
20 Greenland 540.86 1000 ha 2024 up 0.9% volatile
21 Finland 501.99 1000 ha 2024 down 8.0% falling
22 Mexico 499.48 1000 ha 2024 up 12.4% rising
23 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 485.84 1000 ha 2024 down 16.0% falling
24 Myanmar 460.88 1000 ha 2024 up 16.5% rising
26 United Republic of Tanzania 392.9 1000 ha 2024 up 16.3% rising
27 Sweden 391.36 1000 ha 2024 down 20.7% falling
28 Uganda 349.38 1000 ha 2024 down 8.2% flat
28 Réunion 2.08 1000 ha 2024 up 18.2% falling
29 Ukraine 303.17 1000 ha 2024 up 14.2% falling
30 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 294.39 1000 ha 2024 up 9.4% falling
31 Botswana 290.22 1000 ha 2024 down 25.5% falling
32 Peru 279.5 1000 ha 2024 up 1.8% falling
33 Colombia 273.34 1000 ha 2024 down 1.8% falling
34 Angola 272.62 1000 ha 2024 down 22.9% flat
35 Greece 271.75 1000 ha 2024 up 5.2% flat
36 Madagascar 261.71 1000 ha 2024 up 20.7% rising
37 Bahamas 260.18 1000 ha 2024 up 24.7% rising
38 Thailand 251.01 1000 ha 2024 down 6.6% flat
39 Iceland 241.58 1000 ha 2024 down 5.5% falling
40 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 228.74 1000 ha 2024 down 8.4% falling
41 Italy 204.75 1000 ha 2024 up 1.6% flat
42 France 201.83 1000 ha 2024 up 13.7% falling
43 Mozambique 189.35 1000 ha 2024 up 6.5% rising
44 Germany 188.84 1000 ha 2024 up 11.7% volatile
45 French Southern Territories 186.04 1000 ha 2024 up 11.8% falling
46 Spain 182.62 1000 ha 2024 up 8.8% volatile
47 Poland 178.73 1000 ha 2024 up 29.1% flat
48 Senegal 174.44 1000 ha 2024 up 16.3% rising
49 Sudan (former) 173.36 1000 ha 2011 down 41.5% falling
50 New Zealand 168.08 1000 ha 2024 up 14.4% falling
51 Ethiopia 159.06 1000 ha 2024 up 83.1% rising
52 Romania 157.56 1000 ha 2024 down 2.8% flat
53 Cambodia 146.56 1000 ha 2024 down 11.0% falling
54 Ecuador 144.04 1000 ha 2024 up 36.5% rising
55 Nigeria 136.83 1000 ha 2024 up 17.1% rising
56 Congo 133.65 1000 ha 2024 down 19.8% flat
57 Japan 129.03 1000 ha 2024 down 5.4% flat
58 Ghana 127.76 1000 ha 2024 up 119.4% volatile
59 Cuba 126.34 1000 ha 2024 down 21.9% rising
60 Paraguay 120.39 1000 ha 2024 down 46.9% falling
61 Chad 119.8 1000 ha 2024 up 243.3% volatile
62 Denmark 117.54 1000 ha 2024 up 8.6% falling
63 Philippines 116.84 1000 ha 2024 down 19.5% falling
64 Republic of Korea 112.17 1000 ha 2024 down 1.4% rising
65 Melanesia 108.28 1000 ha 2024 down 9.6% falling
66 Malawi 105.43 1000 ha 2024 down 3.2% falling
67 Pakistan 102.56 1000 ha 2024 up 30.9% rising
68 Uruguay 100.75 1000 ha 2024 down 2.3% falling
69 Niger 96.69 1000 ha 2024 up 121.2% volatile
70 Guinea-Bissau 91.66 1000 ha 2024 up 53.4% rising
71 Papua New Guinea 90.05 1000 ha 2024 down 7.0% falling
72 Mongolia 88.84 1000 ha 2024 up 4.5% volatile
73 Croatia 87.95 1000 ha 2024 down 1.8% flat
74 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 86.6 1000 ha 2024 down 10.5% falling
75 Rwanda 79.39 1000 ha 2024 down 2.0% flat
76 Kenya 79.13 1000 ha 2024 up 2.2% rising
77 Ireland 77.42 1000 ha 2024 down 9.1% falling
78 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 77.16 1000 ha 2024 up 25.5% rising
79 Cameroon 74.81 1000 ha 2024 up 0.4% rising
80 Gambia 69.42 1000 ha 2024 up 17.5% rising
81 Hungary 65.48 1000 ha 2024 up 5.1% falling
82 Lao People's Democratic Republic 63.85 1000 ha 2024 up 10.4% rising
83 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 62.14 1000 ha 2024 up 11.9% rising
84 Uzbekistan 60.7 1000 ha 2024 down 9.9% rising
85 Portugal 59.83 1000 ha 2024 down 0.1% falling
86 Malaysia 59.16 1000 ha 2024 up 14.8% falling
87 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 48.87 1000 ha 2024 up 19.5% flat
88 Bulgaria 46.79 1000 ha 2024 up 6.6% rising
89 Nicaragua 44.74 1000 ha 2022 up 4.0% rising
90 Zimbabwe 43.87 1000 ha 2024 up 22.5% falling
91 Guinea 39.27 1000 ha 2024 up 31.2% volatile
92 Estonia 37.96 1000 ha 2024 down 22.6% falling
93 Belarus 36.77 1000 ha 2024 down 3.7% falling
94 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 36.31 1000 ha 2024 up 30.1% rising
95 Serbia and Montenegro 34.33 1000 ha 2005 falling
96 Sri Lanka 34.12 1000 ha 2024 up 65.1% rising
97 Egypt 33.28 1000 ha 2024 down 10.7% flat
98 Mali 32.04 1000 ha 2024 up 17.2% falling
99 Albania 30.78 1000 ha 2024 up 25.1% rising
100 Serbia 29.41 1000 ha 2024 down 11.3% falling
101 Austria 29.06 1000 ha 2024 down 9.7% falling
102 Azerbaijan 28.88 1000 ha 2024 down 13.1% falling
103 China, Taiwan Province of 28.38 1000 ha 2024 up 4.1% rising
104 Algeria 27.57 1000 ha 2024 down 14.4% falling
105 Faroe Islands 27.27 1000 ha 2024 down 29.0% falling
106 Polynesia 27.15 1000 ha 2024 down 4.7% falling
107 Côte d'Ivoire 26.35 1000 ha 2024 down 5.9% rising
108 Czechia 26.15 1000 ha 2024 up 15.1% volatile
109 Belize 25.36 1000 ha 2024 down 6.8% falling
110 Suriname 24.73 1000 ha 2024 down 52.2% falling
111 Sudan 23.76 1000 ha 2024 up 517.1% volatile
112 Kyrgyzstan 23.35 1000 ha 2024 up 65.0% volatile
113 Honduras 21.41 1000 ha 2024 down 5.9% flat
113 Iraq 21.41 1000 ha 2024 down 77.5% volatile
115 Lithuania 21.02 1000 ha 2024 up 44.7% falling
116 Switzerland 20.6 1000 ha 2024 up 4.4% falling
117 Turkmenistan 18.86 1000 ha 2024 up 52.5% rising
118 Georgia 15.95 1000 ha 2024 up 18.0% falling
119 Burundi 15.71 1000 ha 2024 up 3.6% rising
120 Latvia 14.65 1000 ha 2024 up 2.9% falling
121 Turks and Caicos Islands 14.58 1000 ha 2024 up 14.4% rising
122 Micronesia 14.55 1000 ha 2024 up 4.5% flat
123 French Polynesia 14.2 1000 ha 2024 up 2.0% rising
124 Tunisia 13.06 1000 ha 2024 up 3.8% rising
125 Armenia 12.98 1000 ha 2024 up 14.9% rising
126 Slovakia 12.7 1000 ha 2024 up 17.1% flat
127 Dominican Republic 12.54 1000 ha 2024 up 5.6% rising
128 Benin 12.18 1000 ha 2024 down 5.4% falling
129 Guyana 11.8 1000 ha 2024 down 42.9% falling
130 Kiribati 11.5 1000 ha 2024 up 7.4% flat
131 Syrian Arab Republic 11.38 1000 ha 2024 up 12.1% falling
132 Cyprus 11.18 1000 ha 2024 up 46.3% falling
133 Bosnia and Herzegovina 10.26 1000 ha 2024 down 14.1% rising
134 Guatemala 9.9 1000 ha 2024 down 1.3% rising
135 Haiti 9.74 1000 ha 2024 down 6.9% falling
136 Sierra Leone 9.62 1000 ha 2024 up 4.2% volatile
137 New Caledonia 9.18 1000 ha 2024 down 26.9% falling
138 Somalia 9.06 1000 ha 2024 up 533.6% volatile
139 Panama 8.72 1000 ha 2024 up 12.4% flat
140 North Macedonia 8.66 1000 ha 2024 up 0.2% rising
141 Burkina Faso 8.42 1000 ha 2024 up 1,053.4% volatile
142 El Salvador 7.93 1000 ha 2024 up 3.3% rising
143 Morocco 7.92 1000 ha 2024 down 22.0% volatile
144 French Guiana 7.67 1000 ha 2024 up 32.0% rising
145 Afghanistan 7.47 1000 ha 2024 up 299.5% volatile
146 Belgium 6.61 1000 ha 2024 up 92.7% volatile
147 Antarctica 6.51 1000 ha 2024 up 92.6% volatile
148 Puerto Rico 5.93 1000 ha 2024 up 37.9% rising
149 Gabon 5.73 1000 ha 2024 down 4.5% falling
150 Fiji 5.32 1000 ha 2024 down 10.6% falling
151 Cook Islands 5.05 1000 ha 2024 down 18.9% falling
152 Pitcairn 4.76 1000 ha 2024 up 3.3% flat
153 Republic of Moldova 4.07 1000 ha 2024 up 10.0% falling
154 Togo 4.04 1000 ha 2024 up 35.1% falling
155 Costa Rica 4.02 1000 ha 2024 up 12.0% falling
155 Montenegro 4.02 1000 ha 2024 down 26.1% falling
157 Channel Islands 3.88 1000 ha 2024 down 2.5% falling
158 Jamaica 3.55 1000 ha 2024 up 47.9% falling
159 Timor-Leste 3.46 1000 ha 2024 down 10.1% falling
160 China, Hong Kong SAR 3.4 1000 ha 2024 down 5.0% falling
161 Eswatini 3.39 1000 ha 2024 up 41.2% rising
162 Tajikistan 3.35 1000 ha 2024 up 51.6% falling
163 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 3.34 1000 ha 2024 up 54.6% rising
164 Eritrea 3.14 1000 ha 2024 up 161.7% rising
165 Comoros 3.12 1000 ha 2024 down 14.8% flat
166 Cayman Islands 2.8 1000 ha 2024 up 24.4% rising
167 Isle of Man 2.76 1000 ha 2024 down 4.5% flat
168 British Virgin Islands 2.67 1000 ha 2024 up 3.1% rising
169 Vanuatu 2.55 1000 ha 2024 up 2.0% falling
170 Lebanon 2.47 1000 ha 2024 up 94.5% volatile
171 Lesotho 2.36 1000 ha 2024 up 268.8% volatile
172 Brunei Darussalam 2.24 1000 ha 2024 down 24.1% falling
173 Seychelles 2.2 1000 ha 2024 up 7.3% rising
173 Cabo Verde 2.2 1000 ha 2024 up 37.5% flat
175 Guadeloupe 2.18 1000 ha 2024 down 6.4% rising
176 Trinidad and Tobago 1.99 1000 ha 2024 up 53.1% falling
177 United States Virgin Islands 1.95 1000 ha 2024 down 1.0% rising
178 Nepal 1.93 1000 ha 2024 up 55.6% volatile
179 Netherlands Antilles (former) 1.84 1000 ha 2024 up 7.6% rising
180 Antigua and Barbuda 1.73 1000 ha 2024 up 32.1% rising
181 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1.68 1000 ha 2024 down 16.8% falling
182 Liberia 1.67 1000 ha 2024 down 39.5% falling
182 Norfolk Island 1.67 1000 ha 2024 up 3.7% falling
184 Tonga 1.54 1000 ha 2024 up 1.3% flat
185 Mauritius 1.48 1000 ha 2024 up 15.6% falling
186 Anguilla 1.39 1000 ha 2024 up 1.5% rising
187 Martinique 1.37 1000 ha 2024 up 121.0% volatile
188 Mayotte 1.35 1000 ha 2024 down 2.9% falling
189 Namibia 1.26 1000 ha 2024 down 93.4% volatile
189 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.26 1000 ha 2024 up 59.5% rising
191 Solomon Islands 1.18 1000 ha 2024 down 41.3% falling
192 United Arab Emirates 1.16 1000 ha 2024 up 54.7% rising
193 Northern Mariana Islands 1.13 1000 ha 2024 down 4.2% falling
194 Slovenia 1.01 1000 ha 2024 up 55.4% volatile
195 Singapore 1 1000 ha 2024 down 16.7% falling
196 Israel 0.97 1000 ha 2024 up 44.8% falling
197 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.9 1000 ha 2024 up 40.6% rising
198 Saudi Arabia 0.88 1000 ha 2024 up 23.9% falling
199 Samoa 0.81 1000 ha 2024 down 40.0% falling
199 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0.81 1000 ha 2024 up 44.6% volatile
201 Grenada 0.71 1000 ha 2024 up 57.8% rising
201 Saint Lucia 0.71 1000 ha 2024 up 22.4% falling
203 Bermuda 0.69 1000 ha 2024 up 19.0% flat
203 Bhutan 0.69 1000 ha 2024 down 5.5% volatile
205 Marshall Islands 0.68 1000 ha 2024 down 18.1% rising
206 Equatorial Guinea 0.6 1000 ha 2024 down 41.7% volatile
207 Malta 0.52 1000 ha 2024 down 10.3% flat
208 Montserrat 0.51 1000 ha 2024 up 30.8% falling
209 Yemen 0.47 1000 ha 2024 up 14.6% volatile
210 Palau 0.43 1000 ha 2024 up 26.5% falling
211 United States Minor Outlying Islands 0.41 1000 ha 2024 up 95.2% falling
212 Barbados 0.36 1000 ha 2024 up 20.0% rising
212 Oman 0.36 1000 ha 2024 up 38.5% rising
214 Maldives 0.34 1000 ha 2024 up 41.7% rising
215 Qatar 0.32 1000 ha 2024 up 255.6% volatile
215 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.32 1000 ha 2024 down 37.3% falling
217 Gibraltar 0.3 1000 ha 2024 up 7.1% rising
217 Sao Tome and Principe 0.3 1000 ha 2024 down 26.8% falling
217 Tuvalu 0.3 1000 ha 2024 up 42.9% flat
220 Andorra 0.26 1000 ha 2024 up 333.3% volatile
221 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.21 1000 ha 2024 down 41.7% volatile
221 China, Macao SAR 0.21 1000 ha 2024 up 23.5% rising
223 Mauritania 0.13 1000 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
224 Djibouti 0.11 1000 ha 2024 up 175.0% volatile
224 Luxembourg 0.11 1000 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
226 Guam 0.06 1000 ha 2024 down 60.0% volatile
226 Monaco 0.06 1000 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
228 Dominica 0.04 1000 ha 2024 down 33.3% volatile
229 Naoero 0.02 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Aruba 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Bahrain 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Jordan 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Kuwait 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Libya 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Liechtenstein 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Palestine 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
230 San Marino 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
230 Western Sahara 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Niue 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Tokelau 0 1000 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded — 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.