Canada vs Northern America: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC

Canada
117,571 1000 ha
in 2022
Northern America
162,190 1000 ha
in 2022
Canada rank
1st
Northern America rank
3rd

Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Canada
  • Northern America
050.0k100.0k150.0k199220072022

How they compare

Northern America currently reports 162,190 1000 ha against 117,571 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 44,619 1000 ha.

That makes Northern America's figure about 1.4 times Canada's.

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

Canada ranks 1st and Northern America ranks 3rd of 224 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Canada Northern America Difference Ahead
1990s 116,693 1000 ha 161,058 1000 ha 44,364 1000 ha Northern America
2000s 116,821 1000 ha 161,346 1000 ha 44,525 1000 ha Northern America
2010s 117,072 1000 ha 161,602 1000 ha 44,530 1000 ha Northern America
2020s 117,492 1000 ha 162,099 1000 ha 44,607 1000 ha Northern America

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher inland water bodies — area from cci_lc, Canada or Northern America?
Northern America, at 162,190 1000 ha against 117,571 1000 ha in Canada as of 2022.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from cci_lc between Canada and Northern America?
44,619 1000 ha, with Northern America ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Northern America?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Canada and Northern America rank globally for inland water bodies — area from cci_lc?
Canada ranks 1st and Northern America ranks 3rd 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

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.