Eastern Africa vs India: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC
Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Eastern Africa
- India
How they compare
Eastern Africa currently reports 19,395 1000 ha against 5,687 1000 ha in India, a difference of 13,708 1000 ha.
That makes Eastern Africa's figure about 3.4 times India's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Eastern Africa has been ahead every year.
Eastern Africa ranks 10th and India ranks 11th of 26 groups.
Eastern Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Eastern Africa | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 19,443 1000 ha | 5,415 1000 ha | 14,028 1000 ha | Eastern Africa |
| 2000s | 19,249 1000 ha | 5,423 1000 ha | 13,825 1000 ha | Eastern Africa |
| 2010s | 19,336 1000 ha | 5,562 1000 ha | 13,773 1000 ha | Eastern Africa |
| 2020s | 19,388 1000 ha | 5,663 1000 ha | 13,725 1000 ha | Eastern Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher inland water bodies — area from cci_lc, Eastern Africa or India?
- Eastern Africa, at 19,395 1000 ha against 5,687 1000 ha in India as of 2022.
- What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from cci_lc between Eastern Africa and India?
- 13,708 1000 ha, with Eastern Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Africa and India?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Eastern Africa and India rank globally for inland water bodies — area from cci_lc?
- Eastern Africa ranks 10th and India ranks 11th of 26 groups.
- 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.