Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Malawi
Malawi: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS was 0.12 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Malawi, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 0.12 1000 ha for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of down 29.4% over five years.
Malawi ranks 128th of 170 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS in Malawi, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 0.17 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 0.15 1000 ha | -11.8% |
| 2017 | 0.14 1000 ha | -6.7% |
| 2018 | 0.12 1000 ha | -14.3% |
| 2019 | 0.12 1000 ha | +0.0% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 0.12 1000 ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 186.43 1000 ha, 0% of the median. (20 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 0.12 1000 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3.65 1000 ha, 3% of the median. (42 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 125 Guinea-Bissau 0.18 1000 ha compare
- 126 Congo 0.16 1000 ha compare
- 127 Montenegro 0.14 1000 ha compare
- 128 Brunei Darussalam 0.12 1000 ha compare
- 130 Andorra 0.11 1000 ha compare
- 130 French Southern Territories 0.11 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Malawi
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -0.9153 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -0.8098 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.254 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.07 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 3.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate 5.3 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Malawi?
- Terrestrial barren land — area from cgls in Malawi was 0.12 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 0.17 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest terrestrial barren land — area from cgls recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.12 1000 ha in 2018.
- How does Malawi rank for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
- Malawi ranks 128th out of 170 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Malawi data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS. 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.