Grassland — Area from CGLS in Africa

Africa: Grassland — Area from CGLS was 95,252 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
95,252 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.2%
Rank
10th
of 26 groups
All-time high
95,749 1000 ha
in 2016
All-time low
73,810 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Grassland — Area from CGLS in Africa, 2015–2019

020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100.0k2015201720192015: 73.8k 1000 ha2016: 95.7k 1000 ha2017: 95.6k 1000 ha2018: 95.4k 1000 ha2019: 95.3k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

In 2019, grassland — area from cgls in Africa stood at 95,252 1000 ha.

That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and up 29.1% over five years.

Africa ranks 10th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Africa

  1. 7 Peru 30,593 1000 ha compare
  2. 8 Greenland 16,935 1000 ha compare
  3. 9 Uzbekistan 16,551 1000 ha compare
  4. 10 Norway 15,248 1000 ha compare
  5. 11 Kyrgyzstan 14,902 1000 ha compare
  6. 12 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 11,549 1000 ha compare
  7. 13 Namibia 11,540 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is grassland — area from cgls in Africa?
Grassland — area from cgls in Africa was 95,252 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest grassland — area from cgls recorded in Africa?
The highest recorded value was 95,749 1000 ha in 2016.
What is the lowest grassland — area from cgls recorded in Africa?
The lowest recorded value was 73,810 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Africa rank for grassland — area from cgls?
Africa ranks 10th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Africa data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Grassland — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Grassland — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
65 places, 325 data points, 2015–2019
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.