Grassland — Area from CGLS in Europe
Europe: Grassland — Area from CGLS was 484,071 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Grassland — Area from CGLS in Europe, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Europe recorded 484,071 1000 ha for grassland — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.5% on the previous year and down 4.3% over five years.
Europe ranks 4th of 24 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Grassland — Area from CGLS in Europe, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 505,726 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 495,903 1000 ha | -1.9% |
| 2017 | 490,993 1000 ha | -1.0% |
| 2018 | 486,539 1000 ha | -0.9% |
| 2019 | 484,071 1000 ha | -0.5% |
Countries ranked near Europe
- 1 Russian Federation 432,201 1000 ha compare
- 2 Canada 293,294 1000 ha compare
- 3 China 226,238 1000 ha compare
- 3 China, mainland 226,238 1000 ha compare
- 3 Melanesia 0 1000 ha
- 3 Micronesia 0 1000 ha
- 3 Polynesia 0 1000 ha
- 5 Kazakhstan 213,222 1000 ha compare
- 6 Mongolia 87,553 1000 ha compare
- 7 South Africa 62,225 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Europe
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -1.75 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -3.33 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.435 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.71 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 101.18 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 57.94 million t (2024)
- Paper and paperboard — Production 94.14 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Production 73.33 million t (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per area of cropland 13.89 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is grassland — area from cgls in Europe?
- Grassland — area from cgls in Europe was 484,071 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest grassland — area from cgls recorded in Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 505,726 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest grassland — area from cgls recorded in Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 484,071 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Europe rank for grassland — area from cgls?
- Europe ranks 4th out of 24 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Europe 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
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.