Nicaragua vs Nigeria: Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures

Nicaragua

27.36 percent

in 2023

Nigeria

27.64 percent

in 2023

Nicaragua rank

58th

Nigeria rank

57th

Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures over time

Nicaragua
Nigeria

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 27.64 percent against 27.36 percent in Nicaragua, a difference of 0.28 percent.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nicaragua ranks 58th and Nigeria ranks 57th 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).