Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Americas

Americas: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 149,203 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
149,203 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.6%
Rank
9th
of 28 groups
All-time high
155,833 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
149,203 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Americas, 2015–2019

050.0k100.0k150.0k2015201720192015: 155.8k 1000 ha2016: 153.8k 1000 ha2017: 151.2k 1000 ha2018: 150.1k 1000 ha2019: 149.2k 1000 ha

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 9th of 28 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Americas

  1. 6 Sudan 111,643 1000 ha compare
  2. 7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 101,745 1000 ha compare
  3. 8 Egypt 92,282 1000 ha compare
  4. 9 Mauritania 84,386 1000 ha compare
  5. 10 Niger 84,256 1000 ha compare
  6. 11 Mali 70,270 1000 ha compare
  7. 12 Chad 67,078 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 212 places →

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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 9th out of 28 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

Indicator
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
212 places, 1,060 data points, 2015–2019
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.