Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Southern Europe
Southern Europe: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC was 1,366 1000 ha in 2022. ▼ Falling
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Southern Europe, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Southern Europe recorded 1,366 1000 ha for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in 2022. That is the lowest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Southern Europe peaked at 1,694 1000 ha in 1992 and was at its lowest, 1,366 1000 ha, in 2022.
Southern Europe ranks 20th of 44 regions on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1,634 1000 ha | 1,519 1000 ha | 1,694 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 1,413 1000 ha | 1,376 1000 ha | 1,467 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,371 1000 ha | 1,366 1000 ha | 1,374 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,367 1000 ha | 1,366 1000 ha | 1,368 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Southern Europe
- 17 Sudan 8,342 1000 ha compare
- 18 Saudi Arabia 8,340 1000 ha compare
- 19 Sudan (former) 6,628 1000 ha compare
- 20 Peru 6,397 1000 ha compare
- 21 Norway 6,386 1000 ha compare
- 22 Somalia 6,038 1000 ha compare
- 23 Mauritania, Islamic Republic of 6,009 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Southern Europe
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.323 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.19 °C (2025)
- Roundwood — Production 73.08 million m3 (2024)
- Roundwood, non-coniferous — Production 48.29 million m3 (2024)
- Roundwood, coniferous — Production 24.80 million m3 (2024)
- Roundwood — Export value 783,078 1000 USD (2024)
- Roundwood — Export quantity 6.44 million m3 (2024)
- Roundwood — Import value 850,367 1000 USD (2024)
- Roundwood — Import quantity 7.13 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Southern Europe?
- Sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Southern Europe was 1,366 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 Southern Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 1,694 1000 ha in 1992.
- What is the lowest sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Southern Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,366 1000 ha in 2022.
- How does Southern Europe rank for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- Southern Europe ranks 20th out of 44 regions with data for 2022.
- Is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Southern Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Southern 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 31 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.