Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Vanuatu

Vanuatu: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 2.73 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
2.73 1000 ha
Change on year
down 2.8%
World rank
110th
of 184 countries
All-time high
3.31 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
2.73 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

01232015201720192015: 3.3 1000 ha2016: 3.1 1000 ha2017: 3 1000 ha2018: 2.8 1000 ha2019: 2.7 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Vanuatu recorded 2.73 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 2.8% on the previous year and down 17.5% over five years.

That places Vanuatu 110th out of 184 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Vanuatu

  1. 107 Solomon Islands 2.93 1000 ha compare
  2. 108 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 2.86 1000 ha compare
  3. 109 Uruguay 2.75 1000 ha compare
  4. 111 Cameroon 2.66 1000 ha compare
  5. 112 Gambia 2.65 1000 ha compare
  6. 113 Cyprus 2.47 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Vanuatu?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Vanuatu was 2.73 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 Vanuatu?
The highest recorded value was 3.31 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Vanuatu?
The lowest recorded value was 2.73 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Vanuatu rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Vanuatu ranks 110th out of 184 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Vanuatu 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.