Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Malawi
Malawi: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 2,918 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Malawi, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 2,918 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 0.8% on the previous year and down 15.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from modis in Malawi peaked at 4,113 1000 ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 2,918 1000 ha, in 2024.
Malawi ranks 98th 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 | 3,747 1000 ha | 3,518 1000 ha | 4,113 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 3,369 1000 ha | 3,217 1000 ha | 3,515 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,994 1000 ha | 2,918 1000 ha | 3,104 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 95 Bhutan 3,076 1000 ha compare
- 96 Lithuania 3,026 1000 ha compare
- 97 Kazakhstan 2,924 1000 ha compare
- 99 Guinea-Bissau 2,772 1000 ha compare
- 100 Slovakia 2,752 1000 ha compare
- 101 Equatorial Guinea 2,612 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Malawi
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 3.67 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 157.29 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 2,420 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 19.62 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 30.17 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 1,850 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 4.6 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 282.19 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 65.23 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 4,000 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from modis in Malawi?
- Tree-covered areas — area from modis in Malawi was 2,918 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 Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 4,113 1000 ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,918 1000 ha in 2024.
- How does Malawi rank for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Malawi ranks 98th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 15.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malawi 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.