Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Nepal
Nepal: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS was 8,473 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS in Nepal, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for tree-covered areas — area from modis in Nepal is 8,473 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.8% on the previous year and up 2.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tree-covered areas — area from modis in Nepal peaked at 8,473 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 7,851 1000 ha, in 2001.
Nepal ranks 67th of 240 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 7,994 1000 ha | 7,851 1000 ha | 8,102 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 8,217 1000 ha | 8,088 1000 ha | 8,312 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,402 1000 ha | 8,359 1000 ha | 8,473 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Nepal
More environment data for Nepal
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 70.24 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 1,369 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 383.1 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 12.52 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 47.95 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 1,795 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 3.87 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 145 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 48.18 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 1,804 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tree-covered areas — area from modis in Nepal?
- Tree-covered areas — area from modis in Nepal was 8,473 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 Nepal?
- The highest recorded value was 8,473 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest tree-covered areas — area from modis recorded in Nepal?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,851 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Nepal rank for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Nepal ranks 67th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tree-covered areas — area from modis rising or falling in Nepal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nepal 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.