Grazing land use over the long-term, per square kilometre by country
Grazing land use over the long-term divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
183
Highest
79.11 hectares per square kilometre
Turkmenistan
Lowest
0 hectares per square kilometre
Luxembourg
Median
13.77 hectares per square kilometre
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
11,249
What the numbers show
Grazing land use over the long-term, per square kilometre is currently reported for 183 countries. The highest value is 79.11 hectares per square kilometre in Turkmenistan; the lowest is 0 hectares per square kilometre in Luxembourg.
The median across all reporting countries is 13.77 hectares per square kilometre, and the mean is 19.82 hectares per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 54 countries rose and 76 fell. The largest increase was in Comoros (up 2,237.6%), and the largest decrease in Belgium (down 100.0%).
Grazing land use over the long-term, per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkmenistan | 79.11 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 16.8% | rising |
| 2 | Djibouti | 73.34 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 3 | Mongolia | 70.73 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.0% | falling |
| 4 | South Africa | 69.19 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 5 | Uruguay | 68.57 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.0% | falling |
| 6 | Somalia | 68.54 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 7 | Kazakhstan | 67.95 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.1% | flat |
| 8 | Madagascar | 64.1 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 62.36 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 10 | Sudan | 61.41 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 11 | Eswatini | 57.91 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.5% | falling |
| 12 | Eritrea | 57.12 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.0% | falling |
| 13 | Ireland | 55.17 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 14 | Uzbekistan | 48.41 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 15 | Morocco | 47.05 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 16 | Kyrgyzstan | 46.89 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 17 | Afghanistan | 46.72 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 18 | Namibia | 46.16 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 19 | Botswana | 45.17 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 20 | Syria | 44.45 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 21 | United Kingdom | 44.21 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.3% | falling |
| 22 | Guinea | 43.55 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Mozambique | 41.9 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 24 | China | 41.82 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.0% | rising |
| 25 | Yemen | 41.67 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 26 | Cote d'Ivoire | 41.51 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 27 | Armenia | 41.49 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 28 | Australia | 41.36 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 29 | Lebanon | 39.08 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 30 | Andorra | 38.46 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.4% | falling |
| 31 | Mexico | 38.25 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 32 | Mauritania | 38.08 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | Kenya | 36.67 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 34 | Chad | 35.74 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 35 | New Zealand | 33.62 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 15.4% | falling |
| 36 | Colombia | 32.42 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 11.6% | flat |
| 37 | Angola | 32.3 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 38 | North Macedonia | 31.69 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 1.5% | rising |
| 39 | Zimbabwe | 31.28 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 40 | Tunisia | 30.57 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 41 | Sierra Leone | 30.48 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 42 | Bolivia | 30.33 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 43 | Paraguay | 30.26 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 44 | Congo | 29.28 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 45 | Azerbaijan | 29.15 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 7.7% | flat |
| 46 | Senegal | 29.09 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 47 | Mali | 28.39 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.0% | rising |
| 48 | United States | 28.17 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 49 | American Samoa | 27.96 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 24.3% | volatile |
| 50 | Cuba | 27.94 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 5.1% | rising |
| 51 | Georgia | 27.92 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 52 | Nigeria | 27.55 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 53 | Nicaragua | 27.38 hectares per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 54 | Argentina | 27.29 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 7.8% | falling |
| 55 | Tanzania | 27.15 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 56 | Switzerland | 27.08 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.4% | falling |
| 57 | Zambia | 26.9 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 58 | Uganda | 26.51 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 59 | Brazil | 24.91 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 60 | Dominican Republic | 24.84 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 61 | Costa Rica | 24.65 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 62 | Portugal | 24.1 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 21.5% | rising |
| 63 | Ghana | 23.35 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 64 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 23.26 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 14.0% | flat |
| 65 | Greece | 23.23 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 4.2% | falling |
| 66 | Netherlands | 22.81 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.4% | falling |
| 67 | Niger | 22.72 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 68 | Burkina Faso | 21.93 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 69 | Liechtenstein | 21.5 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.2% | falling |
| 70 | Jamaica | 21.14 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 71 | Venezuela | 20.63 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 72 | Panama | 20.34 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 73 | Tajikistan | 20.29 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.2% | falling |
| 74 | Spain | 20.05 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 6.8% | falling |
| 75 | Malawi | 19.62 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 76 | Turkey | 18.99 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 77 | Burundi | 18.81 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 78 | Slovenia | 18.79 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 79 | Gambia | 18.48 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 80 | Togo | 18.39 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 81 | Iran | 18.17 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 82 | Ethiopia | 17.82 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.1% | falling |
| 83 | Honduras | 17.78 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 84 | Haiti | 17.78 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 85 | Guatemala | 17.66 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 86 | Iceland | 17.37 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.6% | falling |
| 87 | Romania | 16.94 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 15.8% | flat |
| 88 | Rwanda | 15.75 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 89 | Albania | 15.75 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 9.8% | falling |
| 90 | France | 14.82 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 15.4% | falling |
| 91 | Austria | 14.19 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 9.7% | falling |
| 92 | Algeria | 13.77 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.6% | falling |
| 93 | Germany | 13.56 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.7% | falling |
| 94 | Lesotho | 13.18 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 95 | Czechia | 13.11 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 96 | Ecuador | 13.04 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 97 | Bulgaria | 13.01 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 98 | Ukraine | 12.96 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 4.3% | flat |
| 99 | Liberia | 12.8 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 14.5% | rising |
| 100 | Nepal | 12.52 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 101 | Peru | 12.5 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 102 | Puerto Rico | 11.58 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 6.0% | falling |
| 103 | Jordan | 11.42 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 32.7% | falling |
| 104 | Belarus | 11.25 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 19.7% | falling |
| 105 | Aruba | 11.11 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 106 | Italy | 11.08 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 18.9% | falling |
| 107 | Chile | 10.83 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 29.5% | flat |
| 108 | Bhutan | 10.83 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 109 | Slovakia | 10.44 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 110 | Moldova | 10.1 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 4.8% | falling |
| 111 | East Timor | 10.09 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 112 | Fiji | 9.44 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 113 | New Caledonia | 9.38 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 114 | Latvia | 9.32 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 11.7% | falling |
| 115 | Myanmar | 9.19 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 116 | Iraq | 9.16 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 117 | Antigua and Barbuda | 9.08 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 118 | Cambodia | 8.5 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 119 | Poland | 8.43 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 17.3% | falling |
| 120 | Croatia | 8.24 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 25.4% | falling |
| 121 | Hungary | 8.03 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 3.7% | falling |
| 122 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 8.03 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 123 | Israel | 7.79 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 20.4% | rising |
| 124 | Kuwait | 7.63 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 125 | Libya | 7.56 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 126 | Lithuania | 7.43 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 18.1% | rising |
| 127 | Sri Lanka | 7.11 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 128 | Pakistan | 6.49 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 129 | Guinea-Bissau | 6.45 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 21.6% | falling |
| 130 | Gabon | 6.44 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 131 | United States Virgin Islands | 6.32 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 10.6% | volatile |
| 132 | Denmark | 6.22 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 28.9% | falling |
| 133 | Cape Verde | 6.2 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 134 | Estonia | 6.2 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 15.0% | rising |
| 135 | Russia | 5.62 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 136 | Indonesia | 5.52 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 137 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 5.14 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 138 | Philippines | 5.03 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 139 | Bahrain | 5 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 3.6% | falling |
| 140 | Benin | 4.88 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 141 | Central African Republic | 4.8 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 142 | Barbados | 4.64 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 143 | Bangladesh | 4.61 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 144 | Oman | 4.36 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 145 | Qatar | 4.35 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 146 | Cameroon | 4.23 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 147 | United Arab Emirates | 4.22 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 148 | India | 3.51 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.8% | falling |
| 149 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 3.45 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.4% | falling |
| 150 | El Salvador | 3.07 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 11.7% | falling |
| 151 | Laos | 2.93 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 152 | Grenada | 2.91 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 1.2% | volatile |
| 153 | Guyana | 2.81 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 154 | Dominica | 2.66 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 155 | Belize | 2.19 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 156 | Sao Tome and Principe | 2.08 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 157 | Canada | 2.08 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 5.5% | falling |
| 158 | Vietnam | 2.05 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.0% | rising |
| 159 | Samoa | 2 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 43.4% | volatile |
| 160 | Comoros | 1.73 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 2,237.6% | volatile |
| 161 | Thailand | 1.57 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 162 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1.37 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 163 | Sweden | 1.15 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 7.9% | falling |
| 164 | Vanuatu | 0.9436 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 88.8% | falling |
| 165 | Malaysia | 0.8674 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 166 | Japan | 0.8198 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 15.1% | falling |
| 167 | Brunei | 0.6452 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 168 | Saint Lucia | 0.6066 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 169 | South Korea | 0.5738 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 170 | Mauritius | 0.5364 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 247.8% | volatile |
| 171 | Norway | 0.4805 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 172 | Papua New Guinea | 0.4196 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 173 | North Korea | 0.4152 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 174 | Cyprus | 0.2981 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 53.0% | falling |
| 175 | Bahamas | 0.1998 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 176 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.1816 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | up 22.7% | rising |
| 177 | Tonga | 0.1563 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 83.8% | volatile |
| 178 | Suriname | 0.0997 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 7.0% | rising |
| 179 | Solomon Islands | 0.0966 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 66.2% | falling |
| 180 | Finland | 0.0586 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 46.1% | volatile |
| 181 | Belgium | 0 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 181 | Faroe Islands | 0 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 181 | Luxembourg | 0 hectares per square kilometre | 2024 | down 100.0% | falling |
How this figure is calculated
Grazing land use over the long-term divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Grazing land use over the long-term ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Grazing land use over the long term Our World in Data
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Grazing land use over the long-term divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.