Grassland — Area from MODIS in Palau
Palau: Grassland — Area from MODIS was 0.41 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Grassland — Area from MODIS in Palau, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2024, grassland — area from modis in Palau stood at 0.41 1000 ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 29.3% on the previous year and down 19.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, grassland — area from modis in Palau peaked at 0.6 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.24 1000 ha, in 2001.
Palau ranks 209th of 223 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Grassland — Area from MODIS in Palau, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 0.24 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 0.32 1000 ha | +33.3% |
| 2003 | 0.36 1000 ha | +12.5% |
| 2004 | 0.45 1000 ha | +25.0% |
| 2005 | 0.28 1000 ha | -37.8% |
| 2006 | 0.3 1000 ha | +7.1% |
| 2007 | 0.3 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 0.34 1000 ha | +13.3% |
| 2009 | 0.24 1000 ha | -29.4% |
| 2010 | 0.36 1000 ha | +50.0% |
| 2011 | 0.38 1000 ha | +5.6% |
| 2012 | 0.45 1000 ha | +18.4% |
| 2013 | 0.53 1000 ha | +17.8% |
| 2014 | 0.51 1000 ha | -3.8% |
| 2015 | 0.36 1000 ha | -29.4% |
| 2016 | 0.41 1000 ha | +13.9% |
| 2017 | 0.38 1000 ha | -7.3% |
| 2018 | 0.43 1000 ha | +13.2% |
| 2019 | 0.36 1000 ha | -16.3% |
| 2020 | 0.34 1000 ha | -5.6% |
| 2021 | 0.49 1000 ha | +44.1% |
| 2022 | 0.6 1000 ha | +22.4% |
| 2023 | 0.58 1000 ha | -3.3% |
| 2024 | 0.41 1000 ha | -29.3% |
Palau compared with similar countries
- Palau's 0.41 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 294.06 1000 ha, 0% of the median. (73 countries reporting)
- Palau's 0.41 1000 ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 44.29 1000 ha, 1% of the median. (27 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.3144 1000 ha | 0.24 1000 ha | 0.45 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 0.417 1000 ha | 0.36 1000 ha | 0.53 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.484 1000 ha | 0.34 1000 ha | 0.6 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Palau
- 206 Cook Islands 0.98 1000 ha compare
- 207 Niue 0.64 1000 ha compare
- 208 Bermuda 0.45 1000 ha compare
- 210 Norfolk Island 0.3 1000 ha compare
- 211 San Marino 0.24 1000 ha compare
- 212 China, Macao SAR 0.17 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Palau
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 14.18 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.167 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.05 °C (2025)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 5 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 53.49 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.13 ha/cap (2024)
- Arable land — Area 0.3 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 6.98 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 2 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is grassland — area from modis in Palau?
- Grassland — area from modis in Palau was 0.41 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest grassland — area from modis recorded in Palau?
- The highest recorded value was 0.6 1000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest grassland — area from modis recorded in Palau?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.24 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Palau rank for grassland — area from modis?
- Palau ranks 209th out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is grassland — area from modis rising or falling in Palau?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Palau 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.