Lesotho vs Somalia: Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures

Lesotho

65.88 percent

in 2023

Somalia

68.54 percent

in 2023

Lesotho rank

11th

Somalia rank

8th

Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures over time

Lesotho
Somalia

How they compare

Somalia currently reports 68.54 percent against 65.88 percent in Lesotho, a difference of 2.66 percent.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 11th and Somalia ranks 8th of 208 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures
Unit: percent
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 210 places, 12,094 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Permanent meadows and pastures are areas used permanently (five years or more) for herbaceous forage crops, either cultivated or growing wild (wild prairie or grazing land).