Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Western Africa

Western Africa: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 239,397 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
239,397 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.0%
Rank
6th
of 38 regions
All-time high
240,739 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
239,397 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

050.0k100.0k150.0k200.0k250.0k2015201720192015: 240.7k 1000 ha2016: 240.6k 1000 ha2017: 240.5k 1000 ha2018: 239.5k 1000 ha2019: 239.4k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

In 2019, terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Western Africa stood at 239,397 1000 ha. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.6% over five years.

Western Africa ranks 6th of 38 regions on this measure, in the top quarter.

Countries ranked near Western Africa

  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. 6 Sudan 111,643 1000 ha compare
  5. 7 Egypt 92,282 1000 ha compare
  6. 8 Mauritania 84,386 1000 ha compare
  7. 9 Niger 84,256 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Western Africa?
Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Western Africa was 239,397 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 Western Africa?
The highest recorded value was 240,739 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Western Africa?
The lowest recorded value was 239,397 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Western Africa rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
Western Africa ranks 6th out of 38 regions with data for 2019.
Where does this Western Africa 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
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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.