Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Americas
Americas: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 149,203 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Americas, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 149,203 1000 ha for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 4.3% over five years.
Americas ranks 8th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Americas, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 155,833 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 153,828 1000 ha | -1.3% |
| 2017 | 151,209 1000 ha | -1.7% |
| 2018 | 150,144 1000 ha | -0.7% |
| 2019 | 149,203 1000 ha | -0.6% |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 5 Libya 157,304 1000 ha compare
- 5 Syrian Arab Republic 6,965 1000 ha compare
- 6 Sudan 111,643 1000 ha compare
- 6 Türkiye 637.76 1000 ha compare
- 7 Egypt 92,282 1000 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 170.85 1000 ha compare
- 8 Mauritania 84,386 1000 ha compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 153.07 1000 ha compare
- 9 Niger 84,256 1000 ha compare
- 9 Viet Nam 21.71 1000 ha compare
- 10 Mali 70,270 1000 ha compare
- 10 Melanesia 15.43 1000 ha compare
- 11 Chad 67,078 1000 ha compare
- 11 Lao People's Democratic Republic 6.44 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Americas
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.95 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.303 °C (2025)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Annual growth US$ 2.72 % (2024)
- Wood fuel, coniferous — Production 78.58 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 263.00 million m3 (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 1.73 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$, 2015 525,862 million USD (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 1.74 % (2024)
- Wood fuel — Production 341.57 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Americas?
- Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Americas was 149,203 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 155,833 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 149,203 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Americas rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
- Americas ranks 8th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS. 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.