Grassland — Area from CCI_LC by country

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...

Countries reporting
241
Highest
286,755 1000 ha
China
Lowest
0 1000 ha
Antarctica
Median
566.32 1000 ha
Years covered
31
1992–2022
Data points
8,231

What the numbers show

Grassland — Area from CCI_LC is currently reported for 241 countries. The highest value is 286,755 1000 ha in China; the lowest is 0 1000 ha in Antarctica.

The median across all reporting countries is 566.32 1000 ha, and the mean is 8,522 1000 ha.

Over the past decade 141 countries rose and 74 fell. The largest increase was in Palau (up 90.0%), and the largest decrease in Aruba (down 40.1%).

Grassland — Area from CCI_LC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 286,755 1000 ha 2022 down 1.3% flat
2 China, mainland 286,636 1000 ha 2022 down 1.3% flat
3 Russian Federation 161,932 1000 ha 2022 up 1.9% rising
4 Canada 161,646 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% flat
5 Australia and New Zealand 153,998 1000 ha 2022 up 7.6% rising
6 Australia 139,821 1000 ha 2022 up 8.5% rising
7 Kazakhstan 88,010 1000 ha 2022 down 1.1% flat
8 Brazil 68,385 1000 ha 2022 down 1.6% rising
9 Namibia 39,228 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% rising
10 Mongolia 34,123 1000 ha 2022 up 2.6% rising
11 Sudan (former) 27,129 1000 ha 2011 up 0.6% flat
12 India 24,970 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
13 Afghanistan 24,452 1000 ha 2022 down 1.3% flat
14 Sudan 23,947 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% flat
15 Madagascar 21,696 1000 ha 2022 down 0.6% flat
16 Pakistan 18,978 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% rising
17 Mexico 17,976 1000 ha 2022 up 0.5% flat
18 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 17,641 1000 ha 2022 down 1.8% flat
19 Angola 17,021 1000 ha 2022 down 0.9% falling
20 Colombia 16,820 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
21 Mali 16,352 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% rising
22 Peru 16,314 1000 ha 2022 down 1.7% flat
23 Argentina 15,212 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% flat
24 Niger 14,953 1000 ha 2022 down 3.1% flat
25 Kenya 14,904 1000 ha 2022 down 1.8% rising
26 Chad 14,658 1000 ha 2022 down 3.1% falling
27 New Zealand 14,176 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% flat
28 Türkiye 14,064 1000 ha 2022 down 1.2% flat
29 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 11,933 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% rising
30 Ethiopia 11,677 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% rising
31 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 11,553 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% flat
32 Uruguay 11,447 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% flat
33 France 11,428 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% flat
34 Mauritania 11,088 1000 ha 2022 down 3.4% flat
35 Indonesia 10,235 1000 ha 2022 up 2.9% rising
36 Kyrgyzstan 8,391 1000 ha 2022 down 1.1% flat
37 Somalia 7,401 1000 ha 2022 up 2.3% falling
38 Spain 7,378 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% flat
39 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 7,360 1000 ha 2022 up 1.6% rising
40 Nigeria 7,233 1000 ha 2022 down 2.6% falling
41 Democratic Republic of the Congo 7,147 1000 ha 2022 up 0.8% flat
42 Germany 6,530 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% flat
43 Tajikistan 6,480 1000 ha 2022 down 1.9% flat
44 Greenland 6,245 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
45 Burkina Faso 5,710 1000 ha 2022 down 1.6% flat
46 United Republic of Tanzania 5,330 1000 ha 2022 down 0.6% falling
47 Chile 5,105 1000 ha 2022 up 3.2% flat
48 Ireland 4,749 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% flat
49 Myanmar 4,558 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% rising
50 Ukraine 4,241 1000 ha 2022 up 0.8% flat
51 Thailand 4,061 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
52 Caribbean 3,937 1000 ha 2022 up 1.0% flat
53 Mozambique 3,858 1000 ha 2022 up 1.0% rising
54 Norway 3,706 1000 ha 2022 up 0.8% rising
55 Iceland 3,645 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
56 Botswana 3,518 1000 ha 2022 down 0.8% falling
57 Italy 3,424 1000 ha 2022 up 0.4% flat
58 Uzbekistan 3,307 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% flat
59 Paraguay 3,300 1000 ha 2022 up 2.1% rising
60 Zambia 3,245 1000 ha 2022 up 1.3% flat
61 South Sudan 3,238 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% flat
62 Nepal 3,160 1000 ha 2022 down 0.9% flat
63 Poland 3,056 1000 ha 2022 up 1.3% flat
64 Romania 2,633 1000 ha 2022 up 1.1% flat
65 Sweden 2,549 1000 ha 2022 up 11.0% rising
66 Eritrea 2,536 1000 ha 2022 up 0.5% rising
67 Zimbabwe 2,390 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% falling
68 Philippines 2,141 1000 ha 2022 up 1.1% flat
69 Senegal 2,128 1000 ha 2022 down 2.5% falling
70 Viet Nam 2,095 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% rising
71 Congo 1,913 1000 ha 2022 down 3.5% falling
72 Cameroon 1,800 1000 ha 2022 up 6.7% rising
73 Malaysia 1,799 1000 ha 2022 up 6.5% rising
74 Ecuador 1,742 1000 ha 2022 down 4.4% flat
75 Austria 1,653 1000 ha 2022 up 4.3% rising
76 Uganda 1,585 1000 ha 2022 down 5.1% falling
77 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,526 1000 ha 2022 up 2.8% rising
78 Haiti 1,469 1000 ha 2022 up 0.4% flat
79 Turkmenistan 1,466 1000 ha 2022 up 3.2% flat
80 Japan 1,431 1000 ha 2022 up 3.5% rising
81 Greece 1,404 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
82 Lesotho 1,390 1000 ha 2022 down 1.8% flat
83 Nicaragua 1,376 1000 ha 2022 down 1.1% rising
84 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,347 1000 ha 2022 up 0.4% flat
85 Switzerland 1,327 1000 ha 2022 up 1.7% rising
86 Côte d'Ivoire 1,313 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
87 Cambodia 1,267 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% rising
88 Honduras 1,261 1000 ha 2022 up 4.8% rising
89 Cuba 1,243 1000 ha 2022 up 0.8% flat
90 Belarus 1,236 1000 ha 2022 up 2.2% flat
91 Guatemala 1,187 1000 ha 2022 down 0.6% rising
92 Melanesia 1,180 1000 ha 2022 up 5.4% flat
93 Portugal 1,159 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% rising
94 Morocco 1,093 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% falling
95 Hungary 1,072 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% flat
96 Papua New Guinea 1,029 1000 ha 2022 up 4.9% rising
97 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 1,027 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
98 Czechia 1,016 1000 ha 2022 up 3.0% flat
99 Serbia and Montenegro 993.28 1000 ha 2005 down 1.4% flat
100 Azerbaijan 962.17 1000 ha 2022 down 1.3% flat
101 Finland 949.57 1000 ha 2022 up 13.5% rising
102 Georgia 946.91 1000 ha 2022 down 0.6% flat
103 Bangladesh 942.54 1000 ha 2022 up 3.0% flat
104 Iraq 935.14 1000 ha 2022 up 1.8% flat
105 Ghana 853.86 1000 ha 2022 down 1.5% flat
106 Algeria 832.16 1000 ha 2022 up 1.1% flat
107 Guinea 784.63 1000 ha 2022 down 0.8% flat
108 Dominican Republic 774.66 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% falling
109 Bulgaria 750.71 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% falling
110 Latvia 738.6 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% rising
111 Serbia 737.49 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% flat
112 Bosnia and Herzegovina 729.21 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% flat
113 Armenia 694.56 1000 ha 2022 down 1.7% flat
114 Belgium-Luxembourg 689.28 1000 ha 1999 up 3.7% flat
115 Gabon 642.21 1000 ha 2022 down 2.2% flat
116 Lithuania 638.45 1000 ha 2022 up 1.0% flat
117 Belgium 633.55 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% flat
118 Malawi 629.06 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% rising
119 Sierra Leone 578.88 1000 ha 2022 up 0.5% flat
120 Bhutan 576.02 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
121 Croatia 566.32 1000 ha 2022 up 1.7% flat
122 Denmark 526.31 1000 ha 2022 up 2.0% flat
123 Sri Lanka 505.32 1000 ha 2022 up 1.8% rising
124 Syrian Arab Republic 490.79 1000 ha 2022 up 1.5% rising
125 Burundi 478.31 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
126 Panama 444.35 1000 ha 2022 up 1.3% flat
127 North Macedonia 439.14 1000 ha 2022 down 2.1% falling
128 Liberia 408.2 1000 ha 2022 up 0.4% rising
129 Estonia 407.92 1000 ha 2022 up 1.4% rising
130 Slovakia 402.81 1000 ha 2022 up 3.2% rising
131 Benin 396.1 1000 ha 2022 down 11.1% flat
132 Albania 386.97 1000 ha 2022 down 1.9% falling
133 Republic of Korea 364.79 1000 ha 2022 up 0.5% rising
134 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 334.06 1000 ha 2022 up 5.9% rising
135 Guyana 305.04 1000 ha 2022 up 1.9% rising
136 Costa Rica 286.97 1000 ha 2022 down 3.7% falling
137 Egypt 284.31 1000 ha 2022 up 4.5% rising
138 Tunisia 281.81 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% rising
139 Eswatini 281.21 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% rising
140 Montenegro 253.3 1000 ha 2022 up 2.4% flat
141 Togo 231.2 1000 ha 2022 down 6.0% falling
142 Saudi Arabia 190.88 1000 ha 2022 up 11.1% falling
143 Republic of Moldova 185.86 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% flat
144 Slovenia 176.07 1000 ha 2022 up 7.0% rising
145 Bahamas 164.68 1000 ha 2022 up 2.2% rising
146 Yemen 163.96 1000 ha 2022 up 1.7% falling
147 Timor-Leste 161.06 1000 ha 2022 down 1.1% flat
148 Rwanda 137.59 1000 ha 2022 up 4.3% flat
149 Libya 130.72 1000 ha 2022 up 2.5% falling
150 Guinea-Bissau 117.68 1000 ha 2022 up 1.6% rising
151 Jamaica 110.1 1000 ha 2022 up 7.9% rising
152 China, Taiwan Province of 109.96 1000 ha 2022 up 8.5% rising
153 Belize 109.79 1000 ha 2022 up 18.0% rising
154 Faroe Islands 96.97 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% flat
155 Israel 89.15 1000 ha 2022 up 1.8% rising
156 Cyprus 87.69 1000 ha 2022 up 2.1% rising
157 Djibouti 77.77 1000 ha 2022 up 13.5% rising
158 Luxembourg 75.09 1000 ha 2022 down 0.8% flat
159 Puerto Rico 73.33 1000 ha 2022 up 2.6% falling
160 Micronesia 71.11 1000 ha 2022 up 1.7% flat
161 Fiji 71.03 1000 ha 2022 up 8.3% rising
162 New Caledonia 63.47 1000 ha 2022 up 7.3% flat
163 Suriname 63.18 1000 ha 2022 up 3.5% rising
164 Lebanon 62.01 1000 ha 2022 up 1.5% flat
165 Cabo Verde 57.26 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% rising
166 Polynesia 55.59 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% flat
167 El Salvador 52.62 1000 ha 2022 up 1.7% falling
168 Gambia 49.94 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% flat
169 Guam 49.33 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
170 Jordan 44.05 1000 ha 2022 up 8.5% rising
171 United Arab Emirates 43.11 1000 ha 2022 up 9.9% rising
172 Palestine 39.85 1000 ha 2022 up 3.5% flat
173 Isle of Man 39.13 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
174 Equatorial Guinea 28.23 1000 ha 2022 up 4.5% rising
175 Samoa 27.53 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
176 Trinidad and Tobago 26.24 1000 ha 2022 up 7.2% flat
177 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 25.93 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
178 Oman 21.71 1000 ha 2022 up 13.4% falling
179 French Guiana 21.6 1000 ha 2022 up 4.9% rising
180 French Polynesia 19.16 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% flat
181 Mauritius 17.89 1000 ha 2022 up 8.4% rising
182 Northern Mariana Islands 17.26 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
183 Comoros 15.4 1000 ha 2022 up 12.0% rising
184 Antigua and Barbuda 14.98 1000 ha 2022 up 12.5% rising
185 Guadeloupe 12.81 1000 ha 2022 up 30.8% rising
186 Andorra 12.78 1000 ha 2022 up 2.7% rising
187 Netherlands Antilles (former) 10.9 1000 ha 2022 down 15.2% falling
188 Brunei Darussalam 10.63 1000 ha 2022 up 8.9% falling
189 Vanuatu 9.94 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% volatile
190 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 9.63 1000 ha 2022 down 1.8% flat
191 Turks and Caicos Islands 9.31 1000 ha 2022 up 3.9% flat
192 China, Hong Kong SAR 8.62 1000 ha 2022 up 4.7% falling
193 Qatar 7.9 1000 ha 2022 up 28.7% rising
194 Kuwait 7.53 1000 ha 2022 up 24.9% rising
195 Solomon Islands 6.43 1000 ha 2022 up 42.3% rising
196 Singapore 5.1 1000 ha 2022 up 6.7% rising
197 Martinique 4.83 1000 ha 2022 up 21.7% rising
198 Anguilla 4.75 1000 ha 2022 down 0.8% flat
199 Tonga 4.23 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
200 Barbados 3.82 1000 ha 2022 down 1.0% falling
201 Liechtenstein 3.71 1000 ha 2022 up 9.8% rising
202 United States Virgin Islands 3.19 1000 ha 2022 up 5.6% flat
203 French Southern Territories 3 1000 ha 2022 up 1.0% flat
204 Bahrain 2.75 1000 ha 2022 up 17.0% rising
205 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.74 1000 ha 2022 up 7.0% rising
206 Grenada 2.5 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
207 Palau 2.47 1000 ha 2022 up 90.0% rising
208 Channel Islands 2.29 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
209 Mayotte 2.01 1000 ha 2022 down 1.5% flat
210 Malta 1.97 1000 ha 2022 up 2.6% rising
211 Seychelles 1.81 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
212 Aruba 1.69 1000 ha 2022 down 40.1% falling
213 British Virgin Islands 1.42 1000 ha 2022 up 1.4% flat
214 Sao Tome and Principe 1.18 1000 ha 2022 up 4.4% falling
215 Saint Lucia 1.16 1000 ha 2022 up 14.9% rising
216 Wallis and Futuna Islands 1.1 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
217 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.08 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% flat
218 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 1.02 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
219 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.92 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
220 Kiribati 0.9 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
221 Cook Islands 0.89 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
222 Cayman Islands 0.77 1000 ha 2022 up 6.9% rising
222 Niue 0.77 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
224 Western Sahara 0.7 1000 ha 2022 up 22.8% rising
225 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.48 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
226 Norfolk Island 0.39 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
227 Dominica 0.37 1000 ha 2022 up 85.0% rising
228 San Marino 0.35 1000 ha 2022 up 2.9% rising
229 China, Macao SAR 0.23 1000 ha 2022 down 4.2% flat
230 Pitcairn 0.22 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
231 Montserrat 0.21 1000 ha 2022 up 5.0% rising
232 Maldives 0.16 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
233 Marshall Islands 0.15 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
234 Tuvalu 0.09 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
235 Bermuda 0.08 1000 ha 2022 up 14.3% flat
236 Gibraltar 0.07 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
236 Naoero 0.07 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
238 United States Minor Outlying Islands 0.02 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
239 Monaco 0.01 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
240 Tokelau 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
240 Antarctica 0 1000 ha 2022 flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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

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.