Grassland — Area from CGLS 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...
What the numbers show
Grassland — Area from CGLS is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 432,201 1000 ha in Russian Federation; the lowest is 72.02 1000 ha in Slovenia.
The median across all reporting countries is 5,514 1000 ha, and the mean is 48,717 1000 ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6,001.
Grassland — Area from CGLS: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 432,201 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 2 | Canada | 293,294 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 3 | China | 226,238 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 3 | China, mainland | 226,238 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 213,222 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 6 | Mongolia | 87,553 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 7 | South Africa | 62,225 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 8 | Peru | 30,593 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 9 | Greenland | 16,935 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 10 | Uzbekistan | 16,551 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 11 | Norway | 15,248 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 12 | Kyrgyzstan | 14,902 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 13 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 11,549 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 14 | Namibia | 11,540 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 15 | Iceland | 6,431 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 16 | Tajikistan | 6,228 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 17 | France | 5,894 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 18 | Pakistan | 5,514 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 19 | Sweden | 4,965 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 20 | Azerbaijan | 2,913 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 21 | Italy | 2,863 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 22 | Nepal | 2,138 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 23 | Georgia | 1,959 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 24 | Yemen | 1,408 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 25 | Austria | 1,352 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 26 | Switzerland | 1,285 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 27 | Germany | 1,245 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia | 944.19 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 29 | Bhutan | 446.2 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 30 | Albania | 426.43 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 31 | North Macedonia | 304.98 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 32 | Japan | 169.98 1000 ha | 2019 | — | falling |
| 33 | Faroe Islands | 126.07 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 34 | Slovakia | 108.06 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 35 | Slovenia | 72.02 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 1.76 million 1000 ha
- Asia 580,186 1000 ha
- Americas 602,891 1000 ha
- Middle Africa 21,487 1000 ha
- Northern America 572,298 1000 ha
- Europe 484,071 1000 ha
- Eastern Europe 432,309 1000 ha
- Eastern Asia 313,961 1000 ha
- United States of America 262,070 1000 ha
- Central Asia 250,904 1000 ha
- Africa 95,252 1000 ha
- Southern Africa 73,766 1000 ha
- Northern Europe 38,319 1000 ha
- South America 30,593 1000 ha
- European Union (27) 16,500 1000 ha
- Western Europe 9,776 1000 ha
- Southern Asia 8,098 1000 ha
- Western Asia 7,224 1000 ha
- Southern Europe 3,666 1000 ha
About this data
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.