Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Western Asia
Western Asia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 306,140 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Western Asia, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Western Asia recorded 306,140 1000 ha for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.5% on the previous year and down 2.7% over five years.
That places Western Asia 4th out of 26 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Western Asia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 314,741 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 315,003 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 314,890 1000 ha | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 307,729 1000 ha | -2.3% |
| 2019 | 306,140 1000 ha | -0.5% |
Countries ranked near Western Asia
- 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
- 4 Saudi Arabia 186,930 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 Western Asia
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.404 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.7 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 5.65 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 5.50 million t (2024)
- Paper and paperboard — Production 5.12 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Production 4.72 million t (2024)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 474.77 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 1.25 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 2.95 g/Int$ (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Western Asia?
- Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Western Asia was 306,140 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 Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 315,003 1000 ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Western Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 306,140 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Western Asia rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
- Western Asia ranks 4th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Western Asia 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.