China vs Europe: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS
Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS over time
- China
- Europe
How they compare
Europe currently reports 62,776 1000 ha against 11,528 1000 ha in China, a difference of 51,248 1000 ha.
That makes Europe's figure about 5.4 times China's.
Across all 5 years both countries report, Europe has been ahead every year.
China ranks 4th and Europe ranks 4th of 199 countries.
Europe has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher inland water bodies — area from cgls, China or Europe?
- Europe, at 62,776 1000 ha against 11,528 1000 ha in China as of 2019.
- What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from cgls between China and Europe?
- 51,248 1000 ha, with Europe ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and Europe?
- 5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
- How do China and Europe rank globally for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
- China ranks 4th and Europe ranks 4th of 199 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS. 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.