Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Australia

Australia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 10,888 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
10,888 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.1%
World rank
31st
of 184 countries
All-time high
10,888 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
9,797 1000 ha
in 2016
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

02.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k2015201720192015: 10.3k 1000 ha2016: 9.8k 1000 ha2017: 9.8k 1000 ha2018: 10.9k 1000 ha2019: 10.9k 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Australia recorded 10,888 1000 ha for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 5.6% over five years.

That places Australia 31st out of 184 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.

Countries ranked near Australia

  1. 28 Somalia 14,220 1000 ha compare
  2. 29 Australia and New Zealand 11,290 1000 ha compare
  3. 30 Peru 11,169 1000 ha compare
  4. 32 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 9,252 1000 ha compare
  5. 33 Tunisia 8,374 1000 ha compare
  6. 34 Jordan 7,878 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 Australia?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Australia was 10,888 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 Australia?
The highest recorded value was 10,888 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Australia?
The lowest recorded value was 9,797 1000 ha in 2016.
How does Australia rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Australia ranks 31st out of 184 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Australia 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.