Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Central Asia

Central Asia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 59,545 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
59,545 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.7%
Rank
12th
of 28 groups
All-time high
63,356 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
59,545 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

020.0k40.0k60.0k2015201720192015: 63.4k 1000 ha2016: 61.3k 1000 ha2017: 61.1k 1000 ha2018: 60.0k 1000 ha2019: 59.5k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Central Asia recorded 59,545 1000 ha for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is down 0.7% on the previous year and down 6.0% over five years.

That places Central Asia 12th out of 28 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Central Asia

  1. 9 Mauritania 84,386 1000 ha compare
  2. 10 Niger 84,256 1000 ha compare
  3. 11 Mali 70,270 1000 ha compare
  4. 12 Chad 67,078 1000 ha compare
  5. 13 Mongolia 56,047 1000 ha compare
  6. 14 Argentina 50,176 1000 ha compare
  7. 15 Yemen 38,651 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Central Asia?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Central Asia was 59,545 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 Central Asia?
The highest recorded value was 63,356 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Central Asia?
The lowest recorded value was 59,545 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Central Asia rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Central Asia ranks 12th out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Central Asia 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.