Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC was 8,340 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Saudi Arabia, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Saudi Arabia recorded 8,340 1000 ha for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
The figure is up 3.8% on the previous year and up 15.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Saudi Arabia peaked at 8,340 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 7,085 1000 ha, in 1996.
That places Saudi Arabia 18th out of 241 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 7,159 1000 ha | 7,085 1000 ha | 7,298 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 7,288 1000 ha | 7,247 1000 ha | 7,342 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,315 1000 ha | 7,226 1000 ha | 7,584 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,990 1000 ha | 7,599 1000 ha | 8,340 1000 ha | 3 |
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More environment data for Saudi Arabia
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 71.44 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 3,279 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 79.55 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 97.39 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 171,000 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 0.16 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 289 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 2.45 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 4,300 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.14 ha/cap (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Saudi Arabia?
- Sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Saudi Arabia was 8,340 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 Saudi Arabia?
- The highest recorded value was 8,340 1000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Saudi Arabia?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,085 1000 ha in 1996.
- How does Saudi Arabia rank for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- Saudi Arabia ranks 18th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
- Is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Saudi Arabia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Saudi Arabia 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.