Canada vs Northern America: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS
Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS over time
- Canada
- Northern America
How they compare
Northern America currently reports 95,273 1000 ha against 60,248 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 35,025 1000 ha.
That makes Northern America's figure about 1.6 times Canada's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Northern America has been ahead every year.
Canada ranks 1st and Northern America ranks 3rd of 223 countries.
Northern America has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | Northern America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 62,014 1000 ha | 97,122 1000 ha | 35,107 1000 ha | Northern America |
| 2010s | 61,204 1000 ha | 96,357 1000 ha | 35,153 1000 ha | Northern America |
| 2020s | 60,795 1000 ha | 95,539 1000 ha | 34,744 1000 ha | Northern America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher inland water bodies — area from modis, Canada or Northern America?
- Northern America, at 95,273 1000 ha against 60,248 1000 ha in Canada as of 2024.
- What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from modis between Canada and Northern America?
- 35,025 1000 ha, with Northern America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Northern America?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Canada and Northern America rank globally for inland water bodies — area from modis?
- Canada ranks 1st and Northern America ranks 3rd 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
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.