Americas vs Brazil: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS

Americas
120,255 1000 ha
in 2024
Brazil
9,006 1000 ha
in 2024
Americas rank
2nd
Brazil rank
5th

Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS over time

  • Americas
  • Brazil
025.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k125.0k200120122024

How they compare

Americas currently reports 120,255 1000 ha against 9,006 1000 ha in Brazil, a difference of 111,249 1000 ha.

That makes Americas's figure about 13.4 times Brazil's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.

Americas ranks 2nd and Brazil ranks 5th of 7 groups.

Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Americas Brazil Difference Ahead
2000s 122,234 1000 ha 8,940 1000 ha 113,294 1000 ha Americas
2010s 121,318 1000 ha 8,910 1000 ha 112,409 1000 ha Americas
2020s 120,435 1000 ha 8,947 1000 ha 111,488 1000 ha Americas

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher inland water bodies — area from modis, Americas or Brazil?
Americas, at 120,255 1000 ha against 9,006 1000 ha in Brazil as of 2024.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from modis between Americas and Brazil?
111,249 1000 ha, with Americas ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Brazil?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Americas and Brazil rank globally for inland water bodies — area from modis?
Americas ranks 2nd and Brazil ranks 5th of 7 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS. 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 MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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.