Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Eastern Asia

Eastern Asia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 298,393 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
298,393 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.5%
Rank
6th
of 28 groups
All-time high
302,780 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
298,393 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

0100.0k200.0k300.0k2015201720192015: 302.8k 1000 ha2016: 301.9k 1000 ha2017: 301.4k 1000 ha2018: 299.8k 1000 ha2019: 298.4k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

In 2019, terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Eastern Asia stood at 298,393 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.5% on the previous year and down 1.4% over five years.

Eastern Asia ranks 6th of 28 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.

Countries ranked near Eastern Asia

  1. 3 Algeria 210,020 1000 ha compare
  2. 4 Saudi Arabia 186,930 1000 ha compare
  3. 5 Libya 157,304 1000 ha compare
  4. 6 Sudan 111,643 1000 ha compare
  5. 7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 101,745 1000 ha compare
  6. 8 Egypt 92,282 1000 ha compare
  7. 9 Mauritania 84,386 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Eastern Asia?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Eastern Asia was 298,393 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 Eastern Asia?
The highest recorded value was 302,780 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Eastern Asia?
The lowest recorded value was 298,393 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Eastern Asia rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Eastern Asia ranks 6th out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Eastern 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.