Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Estonia

Estonia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 0.87 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
0.87 1000 ha
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
113th
of 170 countries
All-time high
0.88 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
0.87 1000 ha
in 2017
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

00.20.40.60.82015201720192015: 0.88 1000 ha2016: 0.88 1000 ha2017: 0.87 1000 ha2018: 0.87 1000 ha2019: 0.87 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 Estonia stood at 0.87 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of down 1.1% over five years.

Estonia ranks 113th of 170 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Estonia, year by year

Annual values for Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Estonia, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 0.88 1000 ha —
2016 0.88 1000 ha +0.0%
2017 0.87 1000 ha -1.1%
2018 0.87 1000 ha +0.0%
2019 0.87 1000 ha +0.0%

Estonia compared with similar countries

  • Estonia's 0.87 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 2.24 1000 ha, 39% of the median. (53 countries reporting)
  • Estonia's 0.87 1000 ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 2.29 1000 ha, 38% of the median. (45 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Estonia

  1. 110 Bulgaria 1.03 1000 ha compare
  2. 111 Portugal 0.91 1000 ha compare
  3. 111 Slovenia 0.91 1000 ha compare
  4. 114 Paraguay 0.53 1000 ha compare
  5. 115 New Caledonia 0.5 1000 ha compare
  6. 116 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0.46 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Estonia?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Estonia was 0.87 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 Estonia?
The highest recorded value was 0.88 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Estonia?
The lowest recorded value was 0.87 1000 ha in 2017.
How does Estonia rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Estonia ranks 113th out of 170 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Estonia 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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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.