Grassland — Area from CGLS in Eastern Asia

Eastern Asia: Grassland — Area from CGLS was 313,961 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
313,961 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.3%
Rank
7th
of 26 groups
All-time high
313,961 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
311,964 1000 ha
in 2017
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Grassland — Area from CGLS in Eastern Asia, 2015–2019

0100.0k200.0k300.0k2015201720192015: 312.1k 1000 ha2016: 312.2k 1000 ha2017: 312.0k 1000 ha2018: 312.9k 1000 ha2019: 314.0k 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 Eastern Asia is 313,961 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 0.6% over five years.

Eastern Asia ranks 7th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.

Countries ranked near Eastern Asia

  1. 5 Kazakhstan 213,222 1000 ha compare
  2. 6 Mongolia 87,553 1000 ha compare
  3. 7 Peru 30,593 1000 ha compare
  4. 8 Greenland 16,935 1000 ha compare
  5. 9 Uzbekistan 16,551 1000 ha compare
  6. 10 Norway 15,248 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 65 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is grassland — area from cgls in Eastern Asia?
Grassland — area from cgls in Eastern Asia was 313,961 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest grassland — area from cgls recorded in Eastern Asia?
The highest recorded value was 313,961 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest grassland — area from cgls recorded in Eastern Asia?
The lowest recorded value was 311,964 1000 ha in 2017.
How does Eastern Asia rank for grassland — area from cgls?
Eastern Asia ranks 7th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Eastern Asia 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.