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UN Report on Land Degradation 2024
December 20 , 2024
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- 77.6 per cent of the Earth’s land likely became permanently drier in the three decades leading up to 2020, compared to the previous 30-year period (1961-1990).
- Drylands are expanded by about 4.3 million km2 – an area nearly a third larger than India, and now cover 40.6% of all land on Earth (excluding Antarctica).
- Currently, 2.3 billion people inhabit the drylands, this number could rise to five billion by 2100.
- Asia is home to 1.35 billion dryland inhabitants, more than half the global total.
- China, India and Pakistan together account for about 50 per cent of the global dryland population.
- Meanwhile, nearly half of Africa’s population (620 million people) also lives in these arid regions.
- Between 1990 and 2015, African nations recorded a 12 per cent decline in gross domestic product (GDP) due to aridity.
- Among Asian nations, aridification was considered responsible for a 2.7 per cent GDP drop over the same period.
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