Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Melanesia

Melanesia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 15.43 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
15.43 1000 ha
Change on year
down 4.3%
World rank
10th
of 16 countries
All-time high
23.14 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
15.43 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

05101520252015201720192015: 23.1 1000 ha2016: 19.4 1000 ha2017: 17.6 1000 ha2018: 16.1 1000 ha2019: 15.4 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Melanesia recorded 15.43 1000 ha for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of down 4.3% on the previous year and down 33.3% over five years.

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

Annual values for Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Melanesia, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 23.14 1000 ha —
2016 19.41 1000 ha -16.1%
2017 17.63 1000 ha -9.2%
2018 16.13 1000 ha -8.5%
2019 15.43 1000 ha -4.3%

Countries ranked near Melanesia

  1. 7 Egypt 92,282 1000 ha compare
  2. 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 170.85 1000 ha compare
  3. 8 Mauritania 84,386 1000 ha compare
  4. 8 United Republic of Tanzania 153.07 1000 ha compare
  5. 9 Niger 84,256 1000 ha compare
  6. 9 Viet Nam 21.71 1000 ha compare
  7. 10 Mali 70,270 1000 ha compare
  8. 11 Chad 67,078 1000 ha compare
  9. 11 Lao People's Democratic Republic 6.44 1000 ha compare
  10. 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3.67 1000 ha compare
  11. 12 Mongolia 56,047 1000 ha compare
  12. 13 Argentina 50,176 1000 ha compare
  13. 13 Timor-Leste 3.39 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Melanesia?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Melanesia was 15.43 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 Melanesia?
The highest recorded value was 23.14 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Melanesia?
The lowest recorded value was 15.43 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Melanesia rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Melanesia ranks 10th out of 16 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Melanesia 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.