Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Benin
Benin: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 2,158 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Benin, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Benin recorded 2,158 1000 ha for tree-covered areas — area from modis in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of down 2.1% on the previous year and down 23.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from modis in Benin peaked at 3,234 1000 ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 2,158 1000 ha, in 2024.
Benin ranks 106th of 240 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3,050 1000 ha | 2,517 1000 ha | 3,234 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 2,829 1000 ha | 2,663 1000 ha | 3,013 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,314 1000 ha | 2,158 1000 ha | 2,628 1000 ha | 5 |
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More environment data for Benin
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 0.56 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 24.33 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 200 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 4.88 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 11.31 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 550 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 13.74 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 668.34 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 74.95 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 3,646 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from modis in Benin?
- Tree-covered areas — area from modis in Benin was 2,158 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 3,234 1000 ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,158 1000 ha in 2024.
- How does Benin rank for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Benin ranks 106th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is down 23.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Benin data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tree-covered areas — 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.