Statizoid

Closed shrubland — Burned Area in Malawi

Malawi: Closed shrubland — Burned Area was 21.39 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile

Latest (2024)
21.39 ha
World rank
31st
of 213 countries
All-time high
4,175 ha
in 1998
All-time low
0 ha
in 2014
Years of data
35
1990–2024

Closed shrubland — Burned Area in Malawi, 1990–2024

01.0k2.0k3.0k4.0k1990200720241990: 459.6 ha1991: 459.6 ha1992: 459.6 ha1993: 459.6 ha1994: 459.6 ha1995: 459.6 ha1996: 1.8k ha1997: 1.1k ha1998: 4.2k ha1999: 1.0k ha2000: 710.1 ha2001: 2.0k ha2002: 1.1k ha2003: 256.7 ha2004: 85.5 ha2005: 213.9 ha2006: 21.4 ha2007: 21.4 ha2008: 192.5 ha2009: 106.9 ha2010: 128.3 ha2011: 21.4 ha2012: 42.8 ha2013: 42.8 ha2014: 0 ha2015: 64.2 ha2016: 21.4 ha2017: 42.8 ha2018: 64.2 ha2019: 0 ha2020: 21.4 ha2021: 0 ha2022: 0 ha2023: 0 ha2024: 21.4 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.

Analysis

In 2024, closed shrubland — burned area in Malawi stood at 21.39 ha.

Over the whole period, closed shrubland — burned area in Malawi peaked at 4,175 ha in 1998 and was at its lowest, 0 ha, in 2014.

That places Malawi 31st out of 213 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.

The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 1,093 ha 459.6 ha 4,175 ha 10
2000s 468.78 ha 21.38 ha 1,989 ha 10
2010s 42.77 ha 0 ha 128.3 ha 10
2020s 8.55 ha 0 ha 21.39 ha 5

Countries ranked near Malawi

  1. 28 Panama 42.75 ha compare
  2. 29 Pakistan 21.46 ha compare
  3. 30 Argentina 21.44 ha compare
  4. 32 Comoros 21.38 ha compare
  5. 33 Ecuador 21.37 ha compare
  6. 34 Afghanistan 0 ha compare
  7. 34 Albania 0 ha compare
  8. 34 Algeria 0 ha compare
  9. 34 American Samoa 0 ha compare
  10. 34 Andorra 0 ha compare
  11. 34 Antigua and Barbuda 0 ha compare
  12. 34 Armenia 0 ha compare
  13. 34 Aruba 0 ha compare
  14. 34 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0 ha compare
  15. 34 Austria 0 ha compare
  16. 34 Azerbaijan 0 ha compare
  17. 34 Bahamas 0 ha compare
  18. 34 Bahrain 0 ha compare
  19. 34 Bangladesh 0 ha compare
  20. 34 Barbados 0 ha compare
  21. 34 Belarus 0 ha compare
  22. 34 Belgium 0 ha compare
  23. 34 Belgium-Luxembourg 0 ha compare
  24. 34 Belize 0 ha compare
  25. 34 Benin 0 ha compare
  26. 34 Bermuda 0 ha compare
  27. 34 Bhutan 0 ha compare
  28. 34 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 ha compare
  29. 34 British Virgin Islands 0 ha compare
  30. 34 Brunei Darussalam 0 ha compare
  31. 34 Bulgaria 0 ha compare
  32. 34 Burkina Faso 0 ha compare
  33. 34 Burundi 0 ha compare
  34. 34 Cambodia 0 ha compare
  35. 34 Canada 0 ha compare
  36. 34 Cayman Islands 0 ha compare
  37. 34 Central African Republic 0 ha compare
  38. 34 Chad 0 ha compare
  39. 34 China, Hong Kong SAR 0 ha compare
  40. 34 China, Macao SAR 0 ha compare
  41. 34 China, Taiwan Province of 0 ha compare
  42. 34 Costa Rica 0 ha compare
  43. 34 Croatia 0 ha compare
  44. 34 Cuba 0 ha compare
  45. 34 Cyprus 0 ha compare
  46. 34 Czechia 0 ha compare
  47. 34 Denmark 0 ha compare
  48. 34 Djibouti 0 ha compare
  49. 34 Dominica 0 ha compare
  50. 34 Dominican Republic 0 ha compare
  51. 34 Egypt 0 ha compare
  52. 34 El Salvador 0 ha compare
  53. 34 Equatorial Guinea 0 ha compare
  54. 34 Eritrea, The State of 0 ha compare
  55. 34 Estonia 0 ha compare
  56. 34 Eswatini 0 ha compare
  57. 34 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 ha compare
  58. 34 Faroe Islands 0 ha compare
  59. 34 Fiji 0 ha compare
  60. 34 Finland 0 ha compare
  61. 34 France 0 ha compare
  62. 34 French Guiana 0 ha compare
  63. 34 French Polynesia 0 ha compare
  64. 34 Gabon 0 ha compare
  65. 34 Gambia 0 ha compare
  66. 34 Georgia 0 ha compare
  67. 34 Germany 0 ha compare
  68. 34 Ghana 0 ha compare
  69. 34 Gibraltar 0 ha compare
  70. 34 Greece 0 ha compare
  71. 34 Greenland 0 ha compare
  72. 34 Grenada 0 ha compare
  73. 34 Guadeloupe 0 ha compare
  74. 34 Guam 0 ha compare
  75. 34 Guatemala 0 ha compare
  76. 34 Guinea 0 ha compare
  77. 34 Guinea-Bissau 0 ha compare
  78. 34 Haiti 0 ha compare
  79. 34 Hungary 0 ha compare
  80. 34 Iceland 0 ha compare
  81. 34 India 0 ha compare
  82. 34 Indonesia 0 ha compare
  83. 34 Iraq 0 ha compare
  84. 34 Ireland 0 ha compare
  85. 34 Isle of Man 0 ha compare
  86. 34 Israel 0 ha compare
  87. 34 Italy 0 ha compare
  88. 34 Jamaica 0 ha compare
  89. 34 Japan 0 ha compare
  90. 34 Jordan 0 ha compare
  91. 34 Kazakhstan 0 ha compare
  92. 34 Kiribati 0 ha compare
  93. 34 Kuwait 0 ha compare
  94. 34 Kyrgyzstan 0 ha compare
  95. 34 Latvia 0 ha compare
  96. 34 Lebanon 0 ha compare
  97. 34 Liberia 0 ha compare
  98. 34 Libya 0 ha compare
  99. 34 Liechtenstein 0 ha compare
  100. 34 Lithuania 0 ha compare
  101. 34 Luxembourg 0 ha compare
  102. 34 Malaysia 0 ha compare
  103. 34 Maldives 0 ha compare
  104. 34 Mali 0 ha compare
  105. 34 Malta 0 ha compare
  106. 34 Marshall Islands 0 ha compare
  107. 34 Martinique 0 ha compare
  108. 34 Mauritania 0 ha compare
  109. 34 Mauritius 0 ha compare
  110. 34 Mongolia 0 ha compare
  111. 34 Montenegro 0 ha compare
  112. 34 Morocco 0 ha compare
  113. 34 Naoero 0 ha compare
  114. 34 Nepal 0 ha compare
  115. 34 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 ha compare
  116. 34 Netherlands Antilles (former) 0 ha compare
  117. 34 New Caledonia 0 ha compare
  118. 34 New Zealand 0 ha compare
  119. 34 Niger 0 ha compare
  120. 34 Norfolk Island 0 ha compare
  121. 34 North Macedonia 0 ha compare
  122. 34 Northern Mariana Islands 0 ha compare
  123. 34 Norway 0 ha compare
  124. 34 Oman 0 ha compare
  125. 34 Palau 0 ha compare
  126. 34 Palestine, State of 0 ha compare
  127. 34 Papua New Guinea 0 ha compare
  128. 34 Paraguay 0 ha compare
  129. 34 Peru 0 ha compare
  130. 34 Philippines 0 ha compare
  131. 34 Pitcairn Islands 0 ha compare
  132. 34 Poland 0 ha compare
  133. 34 Portugal 0 ha compare
  134. 34 Puerto Rico 0 ha compare
  135. 34 Qatar 0 ha compare
  136. 34 Republic of Korea 0 ha compare
  137. 34 Réunion 0 ha compare
  138. 34 Romania 0 ha compare
  139. 34 Russian Federation 0 ha compare
  140. 34 Rwanda 0 ha compare
  141. 34 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 ha compare
  142. 34 Saint Lucia 0 ha compare
  143. 34 St. Pierre and Miquelon 0 ha compare
  144. 34 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 ha compare
  145. 34 Samoa 0 ha compare
  146. 34 Sao Tome and Principe 0 ha compare
  147. 34 Saudi Arabia 0 ha compare
  148. 34 Senegal 0 ha compare
  149. 34 Serbia 0 ha compare
  150. 34 Serbia and Montenegro 0 ha compare
  151. 34 Seychelles 0 ha compare
  152. 34 Sierra Leone 0 ha compare
  153. 34 Singapore 0 ha compare
  154. 34 Slovakia 0 ha compare
  155. 34 Slovenia 0 ha compare
  156. 34 Solomon Islands 0 ha compare
  157. 34 Somalia 0 ha compare
  158. 34 South Sudan 0 ha compare
  159. 34 Spain 0 ha compare
  160. 34 Sri Lanka 0 ha compare
  161. 34 Sudan 0 ha compare
  162. 34 Sudan (former) 0 ha compare
  163. 34 Suriname 0 ha compare
  164. 34 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands 0 ha compare
  165. 34 Sweden 0 ha compare
  166. 34 Switzerland 0 ha compare
  167. 34 Tajikistan 0 ha compare
  168. 34 Thailand 0 ha compare
  169. 34 Togo 0 ha compare
  170. 34 Tonga 0 ha compare
  171. 34 Trinidad and Tobago 0 ha compare
  172. 34 Tunisia 0 ha compare
  173. 34 Turkmenistan 0 ha compare
  174. 34 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 ha compare
  175. 34 Tuvalu 0 ha compare
  176. 34 Uganda 0 ha compare
  177. 34 Ukraine 0 ha compare
  178. 34 United Arab Emirates 0 ha compare
  179. 34 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0 ha compare
  180. 34 United States Virgin Islands 0 ha compare
  181. 34 Uruguay 0 ha compare
  182. 34 Uzbekistan 0 ha compare
  183. 34 Vanuatu 0 ha compare
  184. 34 Western Sahara 0 ha compare
  185. 34 Yemen 0 ha compare

See the full ranking of 271 places →

More climate change data for Malawi

All data for Malawi →

Frequently asked questions

What is closed shrubland — burned area in Malawi?
Closed shrubland — burned area in Malawi was 21.39 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest closed shrubland — burned area recorded in Malawi?
The highest recorded value was 4,175 ha in 1998.
What is the lowest closed shrubland — burned area recorded in Malawi?
The lowest recorded value was 0 ha in 2014.
How does Malawi rank for closed shrubland — burned area?
Malawi ranks 31st out of 213 countries with data for 2024.
Where does this Malawi data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Closed shrubland — Burned Area. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 35 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Closed shrubland — Burned Area in Malawi. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 19 August 2026, from https://climate.statizoid.com/stat/closed-shrubland-burned-area-fao-tier-1/malawi/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://climate.statizoid.com/stat/closed-shrubland-burned-area-fao-tier-1/malawi/">Closed shrubland — Burned Area in Malawi</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Closed shrubland — Burned Area
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
271 places, 9,259 data points, 1990–2024
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Fires consists of estimates of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from biomass burning in a range of vegetation types and from fires in organic soils.