Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Sudan

Sudan: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC was 8,342 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising

Latest (2022)
8,342 1000 ha
Change on year
up 2.3%
World rank
17th
of 241 countries
All-time high
8,342 1000 ha
in 2022
All-time low
6,611 1000 ha
in 2013
Years of data
11
2012–2022

Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Sudan, 2012–2022

02.0k4.0k6.0k8.0k2012201720222012: 6.6k 1000 ha2013: 6.6k 1000 ha2014: 6.6k 1000 ha2015: 6.6k 1000 ha2016: 6.7k 1000 ha2017: 6.8k 1000 ha2018: 7.5k 1000 ha2019: 7.8k 1000 ha2020: 7.9k 1000 ha2021: 8.2k 1000 ha2022: 8.3k 1000 ha

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 Sudan is 8,342 1000 ha, measured in 2022. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.

That represents a change of up 2.3% on the previous year and up 25.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Sudan peaked at 8,342 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 6,611 1000 ha, in 2013.

Sudan ranks 17th of 241 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2010s 6,923 1000 ha 6,611 1000 ha 7,843 1000 ha 8
2020s 8,115 1000 ha 7,850 1000 ha 8,342 1000 ha 3

Countries ranked near Sudan

  1. 14 Morocco 9,989 1000 ha compare
  2. 15 Chad 9,225 1000 ha compare
  3. 16 Algeria 8,846 1000 ha compare
  4. 18 Saudi Arabia 8,340 1000 ha compare
  5. 19 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 7,406 1000 ha compare
  6. 20 Sudan (former) 6,628 1000 ha

See the full ranking of 270 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Sudan?
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Sudan was 8,342 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 Sudan?
The highest recorded value was 8,342 1000 ha in 2022.
What is the lowest sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Sudan?
The lowest recorded value was 6,611 1000 ha in 2013.
How does Sudan rank for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
Sudan ranks 17th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
Is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Sudan?
Over the last ten years it is up 25.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Sudan 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

Indicator
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
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.