Grassland — Area from CCI_LC in Niger

Niger: Grassland — Area from CCI_LC was 14,953 1000 ha in 2022. ▬ Flat

Latest (2022)
14,953 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.6%
World rank
24th
of 241 countries
All-time high
15,520 1000 ha
in 2014
All-time low
14,953 1000 ha
in 2022
Years of data
31
1992–2022

Grassland — Area from CCI_LC in Niger, 1992–2022

05.0k10.0k15.0k1992200720221992: 15.3k 1000 ha1993: 15.3k 1000 ha1994: 15.3k 1000 ha1995: 15.2k 1000 ha1996: 15.2k 1000 ha1997: 15.2k 1000 ha1998: 15.2k 1000 ha1999: 15.2k 1000 ha2000: 15.2k 1000 ha2001: 15.2k 1000 ha2002: 15.2k 1000 ha2003: 15.2k 1000 ha2004: 15.3k 1000 ha2005: 15.3k 1000 ha2006: 15.3k 1000 ha2007: 15.3k 1000 ha2008: 15.3k 1000 ha2009: 15.3k 1000 ha2010: 15.3k 1000 ha2011: 15.4k 1000 ha2012: 15.4k 1000 ha2013: 15.5k 1000 ha2014: 15.5k 1000 ha2015: 15.5k 1000 ha2016: 15.5k 1000 ha2017: 15.5k 1000 ha2018: 15.3k 1000 ha2019: 15.1k 1000 ha2020: 15.1k 1000 ha2021: 15.0k 1000 ha2022: 15.0k 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Niger recorded 14,953 1000 ha for grassland — area from cci_lc in 2022. That is the lowest value across all 31 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.6% on the previous year and down 3.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, grassland — area from cci_lc in Niger peaked at 15,520 1000 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 14,953 1000 ha, in 2022.

Niger ranks 24th of 241 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 15,244 1000 ha 15,162 1000 ha 15,297 1000 ha 8
2000s 15,272 1000 ha 15,216 1000 ha 15,343 1000 ha 10
2010s 15,409 1000 ha 15,099 1000 ha 15,520 1000 ha 10
2020s 15,026 1000 ha 14,953 1000 ha 15,088 1000 ha 3

Countries ranked near Niger

  1. 21 Mali 16,352 1000 ha compare
  2. 22 Peru 16,314 1000 ha compare
  3. 23 Argentina 15,212 1000 ha compare
  4. 25 Kenya 14,904 1000 ha compare
  5. 26 Chad 14,658 1000 ha compare
  6. 27 New Zealand 14,176 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is grassland — area from cci_lc in Niger?
Grassland — area from cci_lc in Niger was 14,953 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest grassland — area from cci_lc recorded in Niger?
The highest recorded value was 15,520 1000 ha in 2014.
What is the lowest grassland — area from cci_lc recorded in Niger?
The lowest recorded value was 14,953 1000 ha in 2022.
How does Niger rank for grassland — area from cci_lc?
Niger ranks 24th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
Is grassland — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Niger?
Over the last ten years it is down 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Niger data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Grassland — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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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

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.