Grassland — Area from CGLS in China, mainland

China, mainland: Grassland — Area from CGLS was 226,238 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
226,238 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.3%
World rank
3rd
of 39 countries
All-time high
226,238 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
224,890 1000 ha
in 2017
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Grassland — Area from CGLS in China, mainland, 2015–2019

050.0k100.0k150.0k200.0k250.0k2015201720192015: 225.0k 1000 ha2016: 225.1k 1000 ha2017: 224.9k 1000 ha2018: 225.5k 1000 ha2019: 226.2k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

The most recent figure for grassland — area from cgls in China, mainland is 226,238 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 0.6% over five years.

That places China, mainland 3rd out of 39 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.

Countries ranked near China, mainland

  1. 1 Russian Federation 432,201 1000 ha compare
  2. 2 Canada 293,294 1000 ha compare
  3. 3 China 226,238 1000 ha compare
  4. 5 Kazakhstan 213,222 1000 ha compare
  5. 6 Mongolia 87,553 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is grassland — area from cgls in China, mainland?
Grassland — area from cgls in China, mainland was 226,238 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest grassland — area from cgls recorded in China, mainland?
The highest recorded value was 226,238 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest grassland — area from cgls recorded in China, mainland?
The lowest recorded value was 224,890 1000 ha in 2017.
How does China, mainland rank for grassland — area from cgls?
China, mainland ranks 3rd out of 39 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this China, mainland 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.