The statistics compare the proportional differences between the main causes of land degradation

on a global scale, coupled with how these causes affected three different regions of the world in
1990s.

Overall,as can be seen from the pie chart, over-grazing was reported to be the main reasons for
agricultural lands becoming less productive. It is also noteworthy from the table that the Europe
was responsible for the highest percentages of total land degraded.

Looking first at the pie chart, over-grazing was the major factor that caused worldwide land
degradation, with the figures reporting to be more than one-thirds (35%). In contrast, far below
was other reasons, with the figures (7%) being 5 times as low as that of over-grazing. This
leaves the remaining percentages to be shared almost equally by deforestation and over-
cultivation, with respective figures being 30% and 28%.
As far as the table is concerned, 23% of all the land degraded belonged to Europe, with the main
reason being deforestation (9,8%).The second place belonged to Oceania (13%),with the data on
over-grazing there being most pronounced (11,7%). It is noticeable that over-cultivation had no
impact in Oceania. In contrast, over-cultivation was the major factor behind land degradation in
North America (3,3%), the total figure of which remained the lowest among all three regions
(5%).