India vs Southern Asia: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC
Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC over time
- India
- Southern Asia
How they compare
Southern Asia currently reports 14,282 1000 ha against 5,687 1000 ha in India, a difference of 8,595 1000 ha.
That makes Southern Asia's figure about 2.5 times India's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Southern Asia has been ahead every year.
India ranks 11th and Southern Asia ranks 12th of 224 countries.
Southern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Southern Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5,415 1000 ha | 14,570 1000 ha | 9,155 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2000s | 5,423 1000 ha | 14,134 1000 ha | 8,711 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2010s | 5,562 1000 ha | 14,119 1000 ha | 8,556 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2020s | 5,663 1000 ha | 14,254 1000 ha | 8,591 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher inland water bodies — area from cci_lc, India or Southern Asia?
- Southern Asia, at 14,282 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 India and Southern Asia?
- 8,595 1000 ha, with Southern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Southern Asia?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do India and Southern Asia rank globally for inland water bodies — area from cci_lc?
- India ranks 11th and Southern Asia ranks 12th 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.