Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Lesotho
Lesotho: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC was 0.2 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC in Lesotho, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Lesotho is 0.2 1000 ha, measured in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of up 5.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Lesotho peaked at 0.2 1000 ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.18 1000 ha, in 1992.
That places Lesotho 175th out of 241 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.18 1000 ha | 0.18 1000 ha | 0.18 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 0.187 1000 ha | 0.18 1000 ha | 0.19 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.194 1000 ha | 0.19 1000 ha | 0.2 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.2 1000 ha | 0.2 1000 ha | 0.2 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Lesotho
- 172 Brunei Darussalam 0.22 1000 ha compare
- 172 Mauritius 0.22 1000 ha compare
- 174 Cook Islands 0.21 1000 ha compare
- 176 Republic of Moldova 0.19 1000 ha compare
- 177 Maldives 0.16 1000 ha compare
- 178 Jamaica 0.14 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Lesotho
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 0.45 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 2.64 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 73.68 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 79.33 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 2,237 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 0.21 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 6 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 20.46 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 577 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.25 ha/cap (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Lesotho?
- Sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc in Lesotho was 0.2 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 0.2 1000 ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.18 1000 ha in 1992.
- How does Lesotho rank for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- Lesotho ranks 175th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
- Is sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lesotho data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC. 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.