Open shrubland — Burned Area, per square kilometre by country
Open shrubland — Burned Area divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
126
Highest
9.57 ha per square kilometre
Botswana
Lowest
0 ha per square kilometre
Samoa
Median
0 ha per square kilometre
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
6,179
What the numbers show
Open shrubland — Burned Area, per square kilometre is currently reported for 126 countries. The highest value is 9.57 ha per square kilometre in Botswana; the lowest is 0 ha per square kilometre in Samoa.
The median across all reporting countries is 0 ha per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.1369 ha per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 22 fell. The largest increase was in Ethiopia (up 921.0%), and the largest decrease in Burundi (down 100.0%).
Open shrubland — Burned Area, per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Botswana | 9.57 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 235.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Australia | 5.8 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 478.0% | volatile |
| 3 | South Africa | 0.8812 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 726.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Namibia | 0.6838 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.3% | volatile |
| 5 | Iraq | 0.0636 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 238.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Madagascar | 0.0373 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 46.9% | volatile |
| 7 | Eswatini | 0.0349 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 80.4% | volatile |
| 8 | Argentina | 0.0349 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 61.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Canada | 0.0342 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 346.6% | volatile |
| 10 | Angola | 0.0207 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 58.3% | falling |
| 11 | Mexico | 0.019 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 30.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Zimbabwe | 0.0163 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 77.9% | volatile |
| 13 | Lesotho | 0.0148 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 77.2% | volatile |
| 14 | Pakistan | 0.0111 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 870.9% | volatile |
| 15 | Ethiopia | 0.0046 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 921.0% | volatile |
| 16 | Morocco | 0.0037 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.1% | volatile |
| 17 | Mozambique | 0.0032 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.8% | volatile |
| 18 | Zambia | 0.0028 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 40.7% | volatile |
| 19 | Kenya | 0.0023 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 81.6% | volatile |
| 20 | Malawi | 0.002 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.6% | volatile |
| 21 | Sudan | 0.0015 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.0% | volatile |
| 22 | India | 0.0013 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 248.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Azerbaijan | 0.0013 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 24 | Turkmenistan | 0.0012 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 93.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Greece | 0.0012 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 26 | Saudi Arabia | 0.0009 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 709.1% | volatile |
| 27 | Chile | 0.0008 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.1% | volatile |
| 28 | Eritrea | 0.0007 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 29 | Peru | 0.0007 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 34.4% | volatile |
| 30 | Tunisia | 0.0007 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 97.1% | volatile |
| 31 | Spain | 0.0007 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.5% | volatile |
| 32 | Somalia | 0.0007 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 94.2% | volatile |
| 33 | Mali | 0.0004 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 67.5% | volatile |
| 34 | Afghanistan | 0.0003 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 800.9% | volatile |
| 35 | Algeria | 0.0003 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 79.7% | volatile |
| 36 | Cuba | 0.0002 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 37 | Brazil | 0.0002 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 48.1% | volatile |
| 38 | Mauritania | 0.0002 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 39 | Yemen | 0.0002 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | up 300.0% | volatile |
| 40 | Senegal | 0.0001 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 83.3% | volatile |
| 41 | Uzbekistan | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 92.4% | volatile |
| 42 | Egypt | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Albania | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Armenia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Burundi | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Benin | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Burkina Faso | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Bangladesh | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Bulgaria | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Bahamas | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Belarus | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Belize | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Bhutan | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Central African Republic | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Switzerland | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | China | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Cameroon | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Congo | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Colombia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Costa Rica | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Cyprus | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Djibouti | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Dominican Republic | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Ecuador | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Estonia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Finland | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Fiji | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | France | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Gabon | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Georgia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Ghana | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Guinea | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Gambia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Guinea-Bissau | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Greenland | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Guatemala | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Guyana | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Honduras | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Croatia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Haiti | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Indonesia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Ireland | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Iceland | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Israel | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Italy | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Jordan | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Kazakhstan | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Cambodia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Kuwait | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Lebanon | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Liberia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Libya | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Sri Lanka | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Latvia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | North Macedonia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Myanmar | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Mongolia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Malaysia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | New Caledonia | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Niger | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Nigeria | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Nicaragua | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Norway | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Nepal | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | New Zealand | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Panama | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Philippines | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Papua New Guinea | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Portugal | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Paraguay | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Palestine | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Romania | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Rwanda | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Sierra Leone | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | South Sudan | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Sweden | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Chad | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Togo | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Thailand | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Tajikistan | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Uganda | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Ukraine | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Uruguay | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 43 | Samoa | 0 ha per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0.4062 ha per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Open shrubland — Burned Area divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Open shrubland — Burned Area ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Open shrubland — Burned Area Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Open shrubland — Burned Area divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.