Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 186,930 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Saudi Arabia recorded 186,930 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 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.5% over five years.
That places Saudi Arabia 4th out of 170 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 187,904 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 187,859 1000 ha | -0.0% |
| 2017 | 187,791 1000 ha | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 187,059 1000 ha | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 186,930 1000 ha | -0.1% |
Saudi Arabia compared with similar countries
- Saudi Arabia's 186,930 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 2.24 1000 ha, 83450.9× the median. (53 countries reporting)
- Saudi Arabia's 186,930 1000 ha is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 13,584 1000 ha, 13.8× the median. (20 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Saudi Arabia
- 1 China 242,338 1000 ha compare
- 1 China, mainland 242,338 1000 ha compare
- 2 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 101,745 1000 ha compare
- 3 Algeria 210,020 1000 ha compare
- 4 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 9,252 1000 ha compare
- 5 Libya 157,304 1000 ha compare
- 5 Syrian Arab Republic 6,965 1000 ha compare
- 6 Sudan 111,643 1000 ha compare
- 6 Türkiye 637.76 1000 ha compare
- 7 Egypt 92,282 1000 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 170.85 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Saudi Arabia
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -52.52 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -27.86 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.424 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.58 °C (2025)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 2.53 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate 9.62 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Saudi Arabia?
- Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Saudi Arabia was 186,930 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 Saudi Arabia?
- The highest recorded value was 187,904 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Saudi Arabia?
- The lowest recorded value was 186,930 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Saudi Arabia rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
- Saudi Arabia ranks 4th out of 170 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Saudi Arabia 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
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.