Antarctica vs China: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC
Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Antarctica
- China
How they compare
Antarctica currently reports 33,779 1000 ha against 13,140 1000 ha in China, a difference of 20,639 1000 ha.
That makes Antarctica's figure about 2.6 times China's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Antarctica has been ahead every year.
Antarctica ranks 3rd and China ranks 6th of 224 countries.
Antarctica has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Antarctica | China | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 33,779 1000 ha | 12,849 1000 ha | 20,930 1000 ha | Antarctica |
| 2000s | 33,779 1000 ha | 12,887 1000 ha | 20,891 1000 ha | Antarctica |
| 2010s | 33,779 1000 ha | 12,987 1000 ha | 20,791 1000 ha | Antarctica |
| 2020s | 33,779 1000 ha | 13,116 1000 ha | 20,663 1000 ha | Antarctica |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher inland water bodies — area from cci_lc, Antarctica or China?
- Antarctica, at 33,779 1000 ha against 13,140 1000 ha in China as of 2022.
- What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from cci_lc between Antarctica and China?
- 20,639 1000 ha, with Antarctica ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Antarctica and China?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Antarctica and China rank globally for inland water bodies — area from cci_lc?
- Antarctica ranks 3rd and China ranks 6th of 224 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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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.