Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Australia
Australia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 10,888 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Australia, 2015–2019
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 170 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Australia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10,311 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 9,797 1000 ha | -5.0% |
| 2017 | 9,838 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 10,876 1000 ha | +10.6% |
| 2019 | 10,888 1000 ha | +0.1% |
Australia compared with similar countries
- Australia's 10,888 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 2.24 1000 ha, 4860.8× the median. (53 countries reporting)
- Australia's 10,888 1000 ha is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 4.55 1000 ha, 2390.4× the median. (18 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Australia
More environment data for Australia
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -4.75 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -5.98 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.345 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.4 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate -1.03 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 0.6708 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate 0.0861 % change on previous year (2024)
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 170 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
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.