Grassland — Area from CGLS in Northern Europe

Northern Europe: Grassland — Area from CGLS was 38,319 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
38,319 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.1%
Rank
11th
of 24 groups
All-time high
38,598 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
38,319 1000 ha
in 2019
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Grassland — Area from CGLS in Northern Europe, 2015–2019

010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k2015201720192015: 38.6k 1000 ha2016: 38.5k 1000 ha2017: 38.4k 1000 ha2018: 38.4k 1000 ha2019: 38.3k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Northern Europe recorded 38,319 1000 ha for grassland — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.7% over five years.

That places Northern Europe 11th out of 24 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Grassland — Area from CGLS in Northern Europe, year by year

Annual values for Grassland — Area from CGLS in Northern Europe, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 38,598 1000 ha —
2016 38,477 1000 ha -0.3%
2017 38,401 1000 ha -0.2%
2018 38,354 1000 ha -0.1%
2019 38,319 1000 ha -0.1%

Countries ranked near Northern Europe

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

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Frequently asked questions

What is grassland — area from cgls in Northern Europe?
Grassland — area from cgls in Northern Europe was 38,319 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest grassland — area from cgls recorded in Northern Europe?
The highest recorded value was 38,598 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest grassland — area from cgls recorded in Northern Europe?
The lowest recorded value was 38,319 1000 ha in 2019.
How does Northern Europe rank for grassland — area from cgls?
Northern Europe ranks 11th out of 24 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Northern 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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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
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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.