Brazil vs Europe: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC

Brazil
13,650 1000 ha
in 2022
Europe
79,977 1000 ha
in 2022
Brazil rank
5th
Europe rank
4th

Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Brazil
  • Europe
20.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k199220072022

How they compare

Europe currently reports 79,977 1000 ha against 13,650 1000 ha in Brazil, a difference of 66,327 1000 ha.

That makes Europe's figure about 5.9 times Brazil's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Europe has been ahead every year.

Brazil ranks 5th and Europe ranks 4th of 224 countries.

Europe has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Brazil Europe Difference Ahead
1990s 11,861 1000 ha 80,779 1000 ha 68,918 1000 ha Europe
2000s 13,350 1000 ha 80,637 1000 ha 67,287 1000 ha Europe
2010s 13,614 1000 ha 79,781 1000 ha 66,168 1000 ha Europe
2020s 13,640 1000 ha 79,913 1000 ha 66,274 1000 ha Europe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher inland water bodies — area from cci_lc, Brazil or Europe?
Europe, at 79,977 1000 ha against 13,650 1000 ha in Brazil as of 2022.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from cci_lc between Brazil and Europe?
66,327 1000 ha, with Europe ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Europe?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Brazil and Europe rank globally for inland water bodies — area from cci_lc?
Brazil ranks 5th and Europe ranks 4th 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Brazil vs Europe: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 31 August 2026, from https://environment.statizoid.com/compare/inland-water-bodies-area-from-cci-lc/brazil/europe/

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://environment.statizoid.com/compare/inland-water-bodies-area-from-cci-lc/brazil/europe/">Brazil vs Europe: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed

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.