Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Palau
Palau: Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded was 0.43 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Palau, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Palau recorded 0.43 1000 ha for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in 2024.
That represents a change of up 34.4% on the previous year and up 26.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Palau peaked at 0.51 1000 ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 0.26 1000 ha, in 2011.
Palau ranks 194th of 223 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Palau, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 0.43 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 0.51 1000 ha | +18.6% |
| 2003 | 0.38 1000 ha | -25.5% |
| 2004 | 0.43 1000 ha | +13.2% |
| 2005 | 0.41 1000 ha | -4.7% |
| 2006 | 0.36 1000 ha | -12.2% |
| 2007 | 0.34 1000 ha | -5.6% |
| 2008 | 0.49 1000 ha | +44.1% |
| 2009 | 0.28 1000 ha | -42.9% |
| 2010 | 0.28 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 0.26 1000 ha | -7.1% |
| 2012 | 0.32 1000 ha | +23.1% |
| 2013 | 0.32 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 0.34 1000 ha | +6.3% |
| 2015 | 0.3 1000 ha | -11.8% |
| 2016 | 0.32 1000 ha | +6.7% |
| 2017 | 0.3 1000 ha | -6.3% |
| 2018 | 0.26 1000 ha | -13.3% |
| 2019 | 0.26 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.3 1000 ha | +15.4% |
| 2021 | 0.32 1000 ha | +6.7% |
| 2022 | 0.32 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.32 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.43 1000 ha | +34.4% |
Palau compared with similar countries
- Palau's 0.43 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 11.18 1000 ha, 4% of the median. (73 countries reporting)
- Palau's 0.43 1000 ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 11.5 1000 ha, 4% of the median. (27 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.4033 1000 ha | 0.28 1000 ha | 0.51 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 0.296 1000 ha | 0.26 1000 ha | 0.34 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.338 1000 ha | 0.3 1000 ha | 0.43 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Palau
More environment data for Palau
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 14.18 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.167 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.05 °C (2025)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 5 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 53.49 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.13 ha/cap (2024)
- Arable land — Area 0.3 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 6.98 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 2 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Palau?
- Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded in Palau was 0.43 1000 ha in 2024, 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 Palau?
- The highest recorded value was 0.51 1000 ha in 2002.
- What is the lowest shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded recorded in Palau?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.26 1000 ha in 2011.
- How does Palau rank for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
- Palau ranks 194th out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded rising or falling in Palau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 26.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Palau 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 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.