Grassland — Area from MODIS in Malawi
Malawi: Grassland — Area from MODIS was 3,943 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Grassland — Area from MODIS in Malawi, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 3,943 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 24.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, grassland — area from modis in Malawi peaked at 3,943 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 2,377 1000 ha, in 2002.
Malawi ranks 66th of 240 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2,812 1000 ha | 2,377 1000 ha | 3,111 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 3,260 1000 ha | 3,059 1000 ha | 3,519 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,773 1000 ha | 3,645 1000 ha | 3,943 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
More environment data for Malawi
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 3.67 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 157.29 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 2,420 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 19.62 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 30.17 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 1,850 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 4.6 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 282.19 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 65.23 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 4,000 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is grassland — area from modis in Malawi?
- Grassland — area from modis in Malawi was 3,943 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest grassland — area from modis recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 3,943 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest grassland — area from modis recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,377 1000 ha in 2002.
- How does Malawi rank for grassland — area from modis?
- Malawi ranks 66th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is grassland — area from modis rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malawi 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
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.