Grassland — Area from CCI_LC in Réunion

Réunion: Grassland — Area from CCI_LC was 27.33 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising

Latest (2022)
27.33 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.1%
Rank
28th
of 29 groups
All-time high
27.33 1000 ha
in 2022
All-time low
22.69 1000 ha
in 2005
Years of data
31
1992–2022

Grassland — Area from CCI_LC in Réunion, 1992–2022

01020301992200720221992: 23 1000 ha1993: 23 1000 ha1994: 23 1000 ha1995: 23 1000 ha1996: 23 1000 ha1997: 23 1000 ha1998: 23 1000 ha1999: 23.1 1000 ha2000: 23.1 1000 ha2001: 23.1 1000 ha2002: 22.9 1000 ha2003: 22.8 1000 ha2004: 22.8 1000 ha2005: 22.7 1000 ha2006: 22.9 1000 ha2007: 22.9 1000 ha2008: 23.2 1000 ha2009: 23.1 1000 ha2010: 23.6 1000 ha2011: 23.9 1000 ha2012: 24 1000 ha2013: 24.4 1000 ha2014: 26.2 1000 ha2015: 26.2 1000 ha2016: 26.4 1000 ha2017: 26.5 1000 ha2018: 26.8 1000 ha2019: 27.2 1000 ha2020: 27.3 1000 ha2021: 27.3 1000 ha2022: 27.3 1000 ha

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

Analysis

The most recent figure for grassland — area from cci_lc in Réunion is 27.33 1000 ha, measured in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 13.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, grassland — area from cci_lc in Réunion peaked at 27.33 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 22.69 1000 ha, in 2005.

That places Réunion 28th out of 29 groups with data for 2022, putting it in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 23.02 1000 ha 23.01 1000 ha 23.07 1000 ha 8
2000s 22.95 1000 ha 22.69 1000 ha 23.17 1000 ha 10
2010s 25.53 1000 ha 23.64 1000 ha 27.19 1000 ha 10
2020s 27.31 1000 ha 27.29 1000 ha 27.33 1000 ha 3

Countries ranked near Réunion

  1. 25 Kenya 14,904 1000 ha compare
  2. 26 Chad 14,658 1000 ha compare
  3. 27 New Zealand 14,176 1000 ha compare
  4. 28 Türkiye 14,064 1000 ha compare
  5. 29 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 11,933 1000 ha compare
  6. 30 Ethiopia 11,677 1000 ha compare
  7. 31 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 11,553 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is grassland — area from cci_lc in Réunion?
Grassland — area from cci_lc in Réunion was 27.33 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 Réunion?
The highest recorded value was 27.33 1000 ha in 2022.
What is the lowest grassland — area from cci_lc recorded in Réunion?
The lowest recorded value was 22.69 1000 ha in 2005.
How does Réunion rank for grassland — area from cci_lc?
Réunion ranks 28th out of 29 groups with data for 2022.
Is grassland — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Réunion?
Over the last ten years it is up 13.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Réunion 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.