Bangladesh vs Nigeria: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS

Bangladesh
676.8 1000 ha
in 2024
Nigeria
473.81 1000 ha
in 2024
Bangladesh rank
39th
Nigeria rank
42nd

Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS over time

  • Bangladesh
  • Nigeria
0200400600800200120122024

How they compare

Bangladesh currently reports 676.8 1000 ha against 473.81 1000 ha in Nigeria, a difference of 202.99 1000 ha.

That makes Bangladesh's figure about 1.4 times Nigeria's.

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

Bangladesh ranks 39th and Nigeria ranks 42nd of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Bangladesh Nigeria Difference Ahead
2000s 641.09 1000 ha 472.79 1000 ha 168.3 1000 ha Bangladesh
2010s 673.39 1000 ha 469.16 1000 ha 204.23 1000 ha Bangladesh
2020s 668.97 1000 ha 471.59 1000 ha 197.38 1000 ha Bangladesh

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher inland water bodies — area from modis, Bangladesh or Nigeria?
Bangladesh, at 676.8 1000 ha against 473.81 1000 ha in Nigeria as of 2024.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from modis between Bangladesh and Nigeria?
202.99 1000 ha, with Bangladesh ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Nigeria?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Bangladesh and Nigeria rank globally for inland water bodies — area from modis?
Bangladesh ranks 39th and Nigeria ranks 42nd of 223 countries.
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.