Vegetation resilience, characterized by the ability of vegetation to maintain stable states, is considered fundamental to ecosystems' structural and functional stability. Under the background of vegetation ecosystems being increasingly endangered by numerous disturbances, determining the nonlinear changing trend of the recovery rate of vegetation to external disturbances and its response to various forces is paramount. Herein, we quantified the global vegetation resilience and its regime shifts by measuring the lag-1 autocorrelation to the interannual kernel Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (kNDVI) from 1982 to 2020, clarified the contribution rates of driving forces on vegetation resilience variation by partial correlation analysis. Results revealed that global vegetation resilience experienced abrupt change and reversed to a decreased trend after the turning point of 2004, with a rate of -3.17 × 10