France vs Italy: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC

France
513.17 1000 ha
in 2022
Italy
485.43 1000 ha
in 2022
France rank
56th
Italy rank
59th

Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • France
  • Italy
0200400600199220072022

How they compare

France currently reports 513.17 1000 ha against 485.43 1000 ha in Italy, a difference of 27.74 1000 ha.

That makes France's figure about 1.1 times Italy's.

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

France ranks 56th and Italy ranks 59th of 224 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade France Italy Difference Ahead
1990s 519.56 1000 ha 467.41 1000 ha 52.15 1000 ha France
2000s 517.23 1000 ha 486.38 1000 ha 30.85 1000 ha France
2010s 513.38 1000 ha 484.37 1000 ha 29.01 1000 ha France
2020s 513.28 1000 ha 485.46 1000 ha 27.82 1000 ha France

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher inland water bodies — area from cci_lc, France or Italy?
France, at 513.17 1000 ha against 485.43 1000 ha in Italy as of 2022.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from cci_lc between France and Italy?
27.74 1000 ha, with France ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for France and Italy?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do France and Italy rank globally for inland water bodies — area from cci_lc?
France ranks 56th and Italy ranks 59th 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.