Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 170.85 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
170.85 1000 ha
Change on year
down 1.8%
Rank
7th
of 16 groups
All-time high
242.19 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
170.85 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), 2015–2019

0501001502002502015201720192015: 242.2 1000 ha2016: 219.1 1000 ha2017: 184.9 1000 ha2018: 174 1000 ha2019: 170.8 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) recorded 170.85 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 1.8% on the previous year and down 29.5% over five years.

Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), year by year

Annual values for Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 242.19 1000 ha
2016 219.11 1000 ha -9.5%
2017 184.86 1000 ha -15.6%
2018 173.98 1000 ha -5.9%
2019 170.85 1000 ha -1.8%

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) was 170.85 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 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
The highest recorded value was 242.19 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)?
The lowest recorded value was 170.85 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) ranks 7th out of 16 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 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.