Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Sudan

Sudan: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 111,643 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
111,643 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.2%
World rank
6th
of 184 countries
All-time high
113,062 1000 ha
in 2016
All-time low
111,643 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

025.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k125.0k2015201720192015: 113.0k 1000 ha2016: 113.1k 1000 ha2017: 112.8k 1000 ha2018: 111.9k 1000 ha2019: 111.6k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Sudan recorded 111,643 1000 ha for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is down 0.2% on the previous year and down 1.2% over five years.

Sudan ranks 6th of 184 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

Countries ranked near Sudan

  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. 7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 101,745 1000 ha compare
  5. 8 Egypt 92,282 1000 ha compare
  6. 9 Mauritania 84,386 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Sudan?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Sudan was 111,643 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 Sudan?
The highest recorded value was 113,062 1000 ha in 2016.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Sudan?
The lowest recorded value was 111,643 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Sudan rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Sudan ranks 6th out of 184 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Sudan 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.