Grassland — Area from MODIS by country

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...

Countries reporting
240
Highest
277,032 1000 ha
China
Lowest
0 1000 ha
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Median
639.7 1000 ha
Years covered
24
2001–2024
Data points
6,390

What the numbers show

Grassland — Area from MODIS is currently reported for 240 countries. The highest value is 277,032 1000 ha in China; the lowest is 0 1000 ha in United States Minor Outlying Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 639.7 1000 ha, and the mean is 13,912 1000 ha.

Over the past decade 139 countries rose and 91 fell. The largest increase was in China, Macao SAR (up 183.3%), and the largest decrease in Sao Tome and Principe (down 100.0%).

Grassland — Area from MODIS: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 277,032 1000 ha 2024 down 2.8% flat
2 China, mainland 276,956 1000 ha 2024 down 2.8% flat
3 Russian Federation 229,288 1000 ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
4 Kazakhstan 228,984 1000 ha 2024 down 0.9% flat
5 Australia and New Zealand 217,264 1000 ha 2024 up 16.5% flat
6 Australia 207,497 1000 ha 2024 up 16.8% flat
7 Canada 203,741 1000 ha 2024 up 2.2% flat
8 Brazil 187,113 1000 ha 2024 up 7.5% rising
9 Mongolia 100,380 1000 ha 2024 up 0.8% flat
10 Sudan (former) 92,493 1000 ha 2011 up 7.7% flat
11 Argentina 86,322 1000 ha 2024 down 1.1% flat
12 Sudan 67,533 1000 ha 2024 up 5.1% rising
13 Ethiopia 53,433 1000 ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
14 Mali 49,706 1000 ha 2024 up 5.4% rising
15 Mexico 48,075 1000 ha 2024 down 2.1% flat
16 Angola 45,855 1000 ha 2024 up 8.9% rising
17 Chad 43,981 1000 ha 2024 up 1.6% rising
18 Kenya 43,217 1000 ha 2024 up 5.8% rising
19 Madagascar 40,125 1000 ha 2024 up 5.0% rising
20 United Republic of Tanzania 39,390 1000 ha 2024 up 2.1% rising
21 Türkiye 36,740 1000 ha 2024 down 3.3% flat
22 Nigeria 34,738 1000 ha 2024 up 4.7% rising
23 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 34,085 1000 ha 2024 down 2.4% flat
24 Peru 33,248 1000 ha 2024 up 3.8% flat
25 Zimbabwe 32,253 1000 ha 2024 up 10.4% rising
26 Botswana 30,529 1000 ha 2024 down 15.2% falling
27 Somalia 25,963 1000 ha 2024 down 2.3% rising
28 Burkina Faso 25,374 1000 ha 2024 up 0.6% flat
29 Niger 25,190 1000 ha 2024 up 8.2% rising
30 Afghanistan 23,931 1000 ha 2024 down 5.4% rising
31 South Sudan 22,963 1000 ha 2024 down 15.7% falling
32 Zambia 22,707 1000 ha 2024 up 20.9% rising
33 Mozambique 20,467 1000 ha 2024 up 28.5% rising
34 Namibia 20,443 1000 ha 2024 down 11.0% falling
35 India 19,835 1000 ha 2024 down 9.4% falling
36 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 18,755 1000 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
37 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 18,648 1000 ha 2024 up 13.6% rising
38 Mauritania 16,298 1000 ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
39 Senegal 15,676 1000 ha 2024 down 4.6% flat
40 Uzbekistan 14,817 1000 ha 2024 down 16.9% falling
41 Kyrgyzstan 14,698 1000 ha 2024 up 0.4% flat
42 Spain 12,731 1000 ha 2024 down 5.8% falling
43 Norway 12,484 1000 ha 2024 down 0.8% rising
44 Greenland 11,496 1000 ha 2024 down 2.5% flat
45 Pakistan 10,868 1000 ha 2024 up 18.7% flat
46 Ghana 10,028 1000 ha 2024 up 11.5% rising
47 New Zealand 9,766 1000 ha 2024 up 11.0% flat
48 Chile 9,751 1000 ha 2024 up 8.4% rising
49 Colombia 8,704 1000 ha 2024 up 1.4% rising
50 Uruguay 8,555 1000 ha 2024 down 15.8% falling
51 Democratic Republic of the Congo 7,189 1000 ha 2024 up 14.3% falling
52 Iraq 6,209 1000 ha 2024 up 1.4% rising
53 Turkmenistan 6,038 1000 ha 2024 down 29.2% falling
54 Tajikistan 6,006 1000 ha 2024 down 5.2% falling
55 Paraguay 5,637 1000 ha 2024 up 76.2% rising
56 Iceland 5,552 1000 ha 2024 down 0.7% rising
57 Eritrea 4,834 1000 ha 2024 up 17.8% rising
58 Morocco 4,717 1000 ha 2024 down 20.1% falling
59 Azerbaijan 4,621 1000 ha 2024 down 7.3% rising
60 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4,568 1000 ha 2024 up 8.1% rising
61 Côte d'Ivoire 4,463 1000 ha 2024 up 10.0% rising
62 Benin 4,450 1000 ha 2024 up 19.4% rising
63 Ukraine 4,447 1000 ha 2024 up 12.6% falling
64 France 4,288 1000 ha 2024 up 2.6% falling
65 Myanmar 4,276 1000 ha 2024 up 13.7% rising
66 Malawi 3,943 1000 ha 2024 up 24.2% rising
67 Indonesia 3,941 1000 ha 2024 down 9.5% rising
68 Congo 3,827 1000 ha 2024 down 3.6% falling
69 Germany 3,478 1000 ha 2024 up 21.4% rising
70 Uganda 3,407 1000 ha 2024 up 0.2% flat
71 Algeria 3,348 1000 ha 2024 down 32.0% falling
72 Yemen 3,281 1000 ha 2024 up 14.9% falling
73 Cambodia 3,238 1000 ha 2024 up 59.4% rising
74 Italy 3,173 1000 ha 2024 down 5.3% falling
75 Poland 3,169 1000 ha 2024 up 52.4% rising
76 Togo 3,158 1000 ha 2024 up 23.1% rising
77 Guinea 3,142 1000 ha 2024 up 23.5% rising
78 Thailand 2,954 1000 ha 2024 down 17.3% falling
79 Lesotho 2,953 1000 ha 2024 up 6.1% flat
80 Greece 2,746 1000 ha 2024 down 9.2% falling
81 Lao People's Democratic Republic 2,639 1000 ha 2024 up 47.1% rising
82 Sweden 2,524 1000 ha 2024 up 4.4% rising
83 Nepal 2,511 1000 ha 2024 down 2.8% falling
84 Ireland 2,432 1000 ha 2024 up 7.7% rising
85 Georgia 2,421 1000 ha 2024 down 1.8% rising
86 Saudi Arabia 2,416 1000 ha 2024 up 28.6% rising
87 Belarus 2,378 1000 ha 2024 up 50.9% rising
88 Portugal 2,291 1000 ha 2024 up 5.9% flat
89 Armenia 2,147 1000 ha 2024 up 10.9% rising
90 Bulgaria 1,895 1000 ha 2024 up 14.2% falling
91 Romania 1,847 1000 ha 2024 up 33.1% rising
92 Philippines 1,805 1000 ha 2024 up 5.4% flat
93 Cameroon 1,594 1000 ha 2024 up 24.2% rising
94 Viet Nam 1,588 1000 ha 2024 down 7.3% falling
95 Caribbean 1,576 1000 ha 2024 down 12.1% falling
96 Ecuador 1,528 1000 ha 2024 down 23.6% falling
97 Japan 1,441 1000 ha 2024 down 6.2% rising
98 Austria 1,440 1000 ha 2024 up 11.0% rising
99 Lithuania 1,415 1000 ha 2024 up 86.5% rising
100 Switzerland 1,321 1000 ha 2024 up 6.4% rising
101 Guyana 1,302 1000 ha 2024 up 3.0% rising
102 Finland 1,205 1000 ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
103 Melanesia 1,087 1000 ha 2024 up 4.7% rising
104 Hungary 999.88 1000 ha 2024 up 16.7% flat
105 Egypt 975.63 1000 ha 2024 up 60.0% rising
106 North Macedonia 962.32 1000 ha 2024 up 3.4% falling
107 Syrian Arab Republic 947.58 1000 ha 2024 up 9.4% falling
108 Gabon 857.97 1000 ha 2024 down 2.3% falling
109 Nicaragua 849.62 1000 ha 2022 up 78.6% falling
110 Eswatini 839.29 1000 ha 2024 down 10.0% falling
111 Albania 833.7 1000 ha 2024 down 13.8% falling
112 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 828.75 1000 ha 2024 up 6.5% rising
113 Malaysia 795.6 1000 ha 2024 down 31.7% rising
114 Papua New Guinea 770.77 1000 ha 2024 up 4.7% rising
115 Croatia 715.87 1000 ha 2024 down 11.9% falling
116 Latvia 709.67 1000 ha 2024 up 140.6% rising
117 Libya 666.83 1000 ha 2024 down 14.5% flat
118 Rwanda 647.74 1000 ha 2024 down 17.8% rising
119 Djibouti 640.25 1000 ha 2024 up 26.5% falling
120 Serbia and Montenegro 639.79 1000 ha 2005 rising
121 Honduras 639.61 1000 ha 2024 up 18.8% rising
122 Bhutan 589.02 1000 ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
123 Bosnia and Herzegovina 579.76 1000 ha 2024 up 6.1% flat
124 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 576.98 1000 ha 2024 up 7.5% rising
125 Oman 564.16 1000 ha 2024 up 27.1% rising
126 Sri Lanka 509.32 1000 ha 2024 down 8.1% rising
127 Estonia 494.04 1000 ha 2024 up 59.5% rising
128 Burundi 489.83 1000 ha 2024 down 20.5% rising
129 Gambia 476.07 1000 ha 2024 down 17.4% flat
130 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 464.91 1000 ha 2024 up 3.6% rising
131 Czechia 458.07 1000 ha 2024 up 22.6% rising
132 Cyprus 444.4 1000 ha 2024 down 24.2% falling
133 Guatemala 425.2 1000 ha 2024 down 7.0% rising
134 Tunisia 399.6 1000 ha 2024 down 60.6% falling
135 Republic of Korea 396.17 1000 ha 2024 up 4.1% rising
136 Costa Rica 378.65 1000 ha 2024 up 21.7% rising
137 Serbia 368.61 1000 ha 2024 up 16.5% rising
138 Slovakia 365.98 1000 ha 2024 up 47.9% rising
139 Lebanon 354.18 1000 ha 2024 down 10.9% falling
140 Panama 333.21 1000 ha 2024 up 18.7% rising
141 Montenegro 331.05 1000 ha 2024 down 0.7% falling
142 Dominican Republic 320.86 1000 ha 2024 down 21.9% falling
143 Bangladesh 309.21 1000 ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
144 Haiti 301.76 1000 ha 2024 down 18.7% falling
145 Israel 294.06 1000 ha 2024 down 13.3% falling
146 Bahamas 284.12 1000 ha 2024 down 5.3% rising
147 Cabo Verde 269.6 1000 ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
148 Guinea-Bissau 262.55 1000 ha 2024 up 2.7% flat
149 Belgium 256.06 1000 ha 2024 down 2.9% falling
150 Belize 250.65 1000 ha 2024 up 29.3% rising
151 Cuba 248.5 1000 ha 2024 down 18.7% falling
152 French Southern Territories 234.15 1000 ha 2024 up 6.2% rising
153 Denmark 220.88 1000 ha 2024 up 63.0% rising
154 Fiji 214.39 1000 ha 2024 down 0.2% flat
155 Republic of Moldova 179.53 1000 ha 2024 up 169.6% rising
156 Suriname 160.97 1000 ha 2024 up 10.0% rising
157 Palestine 155.67 1000 ha 2024 down 16.7% falling
158 Jordan 115.96 1000 ha 2024 up 21.1% falling
159 Timor-Leste 104.56 1000 ha 2024 down 19.5% falling
160 Faroe Islands 92.36 1000 ha 2024 up 10.9% rising
161 Slovenia 83.43 1000 ha 2024 down 8.2% flat
162 China, Taiwan Province of 70.61 1000 ha 2024 up 18.6% rising
163 Trinidad and Tobago 70.33 1000 ha 2024 up 9.4% rising
164 Sierra Leone 70.18 1000 ha 2024 up 18.7% rising
165 Puerto Rico 69.91 1000 ha 2024 up 15.0% falling
166 Jamaica 49.26 1000 ha 2024 down 24.0% falling
167 Netherlands Antilles (former) 47.86 1000 ha 2024 down 1.4% flat
168 Western Sahara 46.18 1000 ha 2024 down 10.4% volatile
169 New Caledonia 44.29 1000 ha 2024 up 55.0% rising
170 Polynesia 40.22 1000 ha 2024 up 2.9% rising
171 Martinique 39.63 1000 ha 2024 down 5.9% flat
172 El Salvador 39.14 1000 ha 2024 up 0.4% rising
173 Guadeloupe 31.72 1000 ha 2024 up 56.6% rising
174 Vanuatu 29.46 1000 ha 2024 down 1.4% rising
175 United Arab Emirates 29.03 1000 ha 2024 up 31.4% volatile
176 Luxembourg 28.67 1000 ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
177 Solomon Islands 27.73 1000 ha 2024 down 0.5% rising
178 Kuwait 24.49 1000 ha 2024 up 45.2% rising
179 Turks and Caicos Islands 22.72 1000 ha 2024 up 4.5% rising
180 Barbados 21.24 1000 ha 2024 down 7.8% rising
181 French Guiana 21.18 1000 ha 2024 up 14.7% rising
182 Andorra 20.06 1000 ha 2024 down 9.8% rising
183 French Polynesia 17.84 1000 ha 2024 down 0.2% rising
184 Mauritius 16.91 1000 ha 2024 down 3.5% rising
185 Comoros 16.57 1000 ha 2024 up 50.8% rising
186 Micronesia 15.81 1000 ha 2024 up 14.1% falling
187 Liberia 15.62 1000 ha 2024 down 23.2% volatile
188 Brunei Darussalam 14.32 1000 ha 2024 up 23.9% rising
189 Isle of Man 13.3 1000 ha 2024 down 13.0% flat
190 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 11.6 1000 ha 2024 up 20.3% rising
191 Saint Lucia 11.46 1000 ha 2024 down 7.6% falling
192 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 10.38 1000 ha 2024 up 30.1% rising
193 Antigua and Barbuda 10.08 1000 ha 2024 up 44.0% rising
194 Antarctica 9.74 1000 ha 2024 down 73.6% volatile
195 Tonga 9.31 1000 ha 2024 up 39.0% flat
196 Samoa 8.75 1000 ha 2024 down 11.3% rising
197 Saint Kitts and Nevis 8.34 1000 ha 2024 up 38.8% falling
198 Northern Mariana Islands 8.19 1000 ha 2024 up 28.6% falling
199 Aruba 7.87 1000 ha 2024 up 3.7% rising
200 United States Virgin Islands 7.4 1000 ha 2024 up 26.7% falling
201 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6.48 1000 ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
202 China, Hong Kong SAR 4.54 1000 ha 2024 up 51.3% falling
203 Guam 4.26 1000 ha 2024 up 52.1% falling
204 Grenada 3.98 1000 ha 2024 up 2.8% falling
205 Malta 3.69 1000 ha 2024 up 48.2% falling
206 Mayotte 3.57 1000 ha 2024 up 44.0% flat
207 Equatorial Guinea 3.55 1000 ha 2024 up 48.5% rising
208 Qatar 3.51 1000 ha 2024 up 65.6% rising
209 Liechtenstein 3.36 1000 ha 2024 up 29.2% rising
210 Dominica 3.17 1000 ha 2024 up 121.7% volatile
211 Seychelles 3.14 1000 ha 2024 up 35.9% rising
212 Montserrat 2.97 1000 ha 2024 down 7.5% flat
213 Singapore 2.67 1000 ha 2024 up 1.5% rising
214 British Virgin Islands 2.55 1000 ha 2024 up 61.4% rising
215 Anguilla 2.38 1000 ha 2024 down 36.9% falling
216 Kiribati 2.35 1000 ha 2024 down 20.3% falling
217 Cayman Islands 1.8 1000 ha 2024 up 1.1% falling
218 Bahrain 1.05 1000 ha 2024 up 9.4% rising
219 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1.03 1000 ha 2024 down 72.0% volatile
220 Cook Islands 0.98 1000 ha 2024 down 13.3% rising
221 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.86 1000 ha 2024 up 8.9% rising
222 Niue 0.64 1000 ha 2024 down 16.9% rising
223 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.51 1000 ha 2024 down 48.0% falling
224 Bermuda 0.45 1000 ha 2024 up 15.4% falling
225 Palau 0.41 1000 ha 2024 down 19.6% rising
226 Norfolk Island 0.3 1000 ha 2024 up 15.4% rising
227 San Marino 0.24 1000 ha 2024 up 118.2% volatile
228 China, Macao SAR 0.17 1000 ha 2024 up 183.3% volatile
229 Pitcairn 0.13 1000 ha 2024 volatile
230 Naoero 0.09 1000 ha 2024 down 57.1% volatile
231 Channel Islands 0.04 1000 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
232 Gibraltar 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
232 Monaco 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Maldives 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
232 Marshall Islands 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Sao Tome and Principe 0 1000 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
232 Tuvalu 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Tokelau 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
232 United States Minor Outlying Islands 0 1000 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Grassland — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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.