Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Europe
Europe: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC was 129,808 1000 ha in 2022. ▼ Falling
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Europe, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Europe is 129,808 1000 ha, measured in 2022.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Europe peaked at 138,340 1000 ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 129,632 1000 ha, in 2020.
That places Europe 6th out of 29 groups with data for 2022, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 137,631 1000 ha | 136,552 1000 ha | 138,340 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 132,750 1000 ha | 130,516 1000 ha | 135,138 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 130,079 1000 ha | 129,747 1000 ha | 130,448 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 129,714 1000 ha | 129,632 1000 ha | 129,808 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Europe
More environment data for Europe
- Standard Deviation 0.435 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.71 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 57.94 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 101.18 million t (2024)
- Arable land — Area 270,153 1000 ha (2024)
- Country area — Area 2.35 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 15,732 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 7.21 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 5.33 kg/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.38 ha/cap (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Europe?
- Sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Europe was 129,808 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 138,340 1000 ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 129,632 1000 ha in 2020.
- How does Europe rank for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- Europe ranks 6th out of 29 groups with data for 2022.
- Is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Europe data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC. 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.