Grassland — Area from MODIS in Ghana

Ghana: Grassland — Area from MODIS was 10,028 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
10,028 1000 ha
Change on year
up 4.0%
World rank
46th
of 240 countries
All-time high
10,028 1000 ha
in 2024
All-time low
7,389 1000 ha
in 2003
Years of data
24
2001–2024

Grassland — Area from MODIS in Ghana, 2001–2024

02.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k2001201220242001: 8.1k 1000 ha2002: 7.4k 1000 ha2003: 7.4k 1000 ha2004: 8.1k 1000 ha2005: 8.1k 1000 ha2006: 8.0k 1000 ha2007: 8.0k 1000 ha2008: 8.0k 1000 ha2009: 8.1k 1000 ha2010: 8.1k 1000 ha2011: 8.1k 1000 ha2012: 8.3k 1000 ha2013: 8.8k 1000 ha2014: 9.0k 1000 ha2015: 9.1k 1000 ha2016: 8.9k 1000 ha2017: 8.8k 1000 ha2018: 9.1k 1000 ha2019: 9.2k 1000 ha2020: 9.6k 1000 ha2021: 9.6k 1000 ha2022: 9.7k 1000 ha2023: 9.6k 1000 ha2024: 10.0k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Ghana recorded 10,028 1000 ha for grassland — area from modis in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.

The figure is up 4.0% on the previous year and up 11.5% over ten years.

Over the whole period, grassland — area from modis in Ghana peaked at 10,028 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 7,389 1000 ha, in 2003.

That places Ghana 46th out of 240 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 7,911 1000 ha 7,389 1000 ha 8,113 1000 ha 9
2010s 8,740 1000 ha 8,111 1000 ha 9,178 1000 ha 10
2020s 9,703 1000 ha 9,557 1000 ha 10,028 1000 ha 5

Countries ranked near Ghana

  1. 43 Norway 12,484 1000 ha compare
  2. 44 Greenland 11,496 1000 ha compare
  3. 45 Pakistan 10,868 1000 ha compare
  4. 47 New Zealand 9,766 1000 ha compare
  5. 48 Chile 9,751 1000 ha compare
  6. 49 Colombia 8,704 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is grassland — area from modis in Ghana?
Grassland — area from modis in Ghana was 10,028 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest grassland — area from modis recorded in Ghana?
The highest recorded value was 10,028 1000 ha in 2024.
What is the lowest grassland — area from modis recorded in Ghana?
The lowest recorded value was 7,389 1000 ha in 2003.
How does Ghana rank for grassland — area from modis?
Ghana ranks 46th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
Is grassland — area from modis rising or falling in Ghana?
Over the last ten years it is up 11.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Ghana data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Grassland — Area from MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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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.