Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Mauritania

Mauritania: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 84,386 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
84,386 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.0%
World rank
8th
of 170 countries
All-time high
84,442 1000 ha
in 2017
All-time low
84,348 1000 ha
in 2016
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k2015201720192015: 84.4k 1000 ha2016: 84.3k 1000 ha2017: 84.4k 1000 ha2018: 84.4k 1000 ha2019: 84.4k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Mauritania recorded 84,386 1000 ha for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in 2019.

That represents a change of down 0.0% over five years.

Mauritania ranks 8th of 170 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

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

Annual values for Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Mauritania, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 84,422 1000 ha —
2016 84,348 1000 ha -0.1%
2017 84,442 1000 ha +0.1%
2018 84,386 1000 ha -0.1%
2019 84,386 1000 ha -0.0%

Mauritania compared with similar countries

  • Mauritania's 84,386 1000 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 33.11 1000 ha, 2549.0× the median. (40 countries reporting)
  • Mauritania's 84,386 1000 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3.65 1000 ha, 23119.3× the median. (42 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Mauritania

  1. 5 Libya 157,304 1000 ha compare
  2. 5 Syrian Arab Republic 6,965 1000 ha compare
  3. 6 Sudan 111,643 1000 ha compare
  4. 6 Türkiye 637.76 1000 ha compare
  5. 7 Egypt 92,282 1000 ha compare
  6. 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 170.85 1000 ha compare
  7. 8 United Republic of Tanzania 153.07 1000 ha compare
  8. 9 Niger 84,256 1000 ha compare
  9. 9 Viet Nam 21.71 1000 ha compare
  10. 10 Mali 70,270 1000 ha compare
  11. 10 Melanesia 15.43 1000 ha compare
  12. 11 Chad 67,078 1000 ha compare
  13. 11 Lao People's Democratic Republic 6.44 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Mauritania?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Mauritania was 84,386 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 Mauritania?
The highest recorded value was 84,442 1000 ha in 2017.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Mauritania?
The lowest recorded value was 84,348 1000 ha in 2016.
How does Mauritania rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Mauritania ranks 8th out of 170 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Mauritania 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
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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.