Which has higher grassland — area from cci_lc, Equatorial Guinea or Samoa?

Equatorial Guinea, at 28.23 1000 ha against 27.53 1000 ha in Samoa as of 2022.

What is the difference in grassland — area from cci_lc between Equatorial Guinea and Samoa?

0.7 1000 ha, with Equatorial Guinea ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Equatorial Guinea and Samoa?

31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.

Where does this data come from?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Grassland — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Equatorial Guinea vs Samoa: Grassland — Area from CCI_LC

Equatorial Guinea

28.23 1000 ha

in 2022

Samoa

27.53 1000 ha

in 2022

Equatorial Guinea rank

174th

Samoa rank

175th

Grassland — Area from CCI_LC over time

Equatorial Guinea
Samoa

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 28.23 1000 ha against 27.53 1000 ha in Samoa, a difference of 0.7 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Samoa ahead.

Equatorial Guinea ranks 174th and Samoa ranks 175th of 241 countries.

Samoa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Equatorial Guinea	Samoa	Difference	Ahead
1990s	23.16 1000 ha	27.53 1000 ha	4.37 1000 ha	Samoa
2000s	27.47 1000 ha	27.53 1000 ha	0.063 1000 ha	Samoa
2010s	26.68 1000 ha	27.53 1000 ha	0.847 1000 ha	Samoa
2020s	27.36 1000 ha	27.53 1000 ha	0.1667 1000 ha	Samoa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher grassland — area from cci_lc, Equatorial Guinea or Samoa?: Equatorial Guinea, at 28.23 1000 ha against 27.53 1000 ha in Samoa as of 2022.
What is the difference in grassland — area from cci_lc between Equatorial Guinea and Samoa?: 0.7 1000 ha, with Equatorial Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Equatorial Guinea and Samoa?: 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Equatorial Guinea and Samoa rank globally for grassland — area from cci_lc?: Equatorial Guinea ranks 174th and Samoa ranks 175th of 241 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Grassland — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator: Grassland — Area from CCI_LC
Unit: 1000 ha
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed: 12 August 2026

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.