China vs Kazakhstan: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS

China
8,896 1000 ha
in 2024
Kazakhstan
17,833 1000 ha
in 2024
China rank
6th
Kazakhstan rank
4th

Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS over time

  • China
  • Kazakhstan
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How they compare

Kazakhstan currently reports 17,833 1000 ha against 8,896 1000 ha in China, a difference of 8,937 1000 ha.

That makes Kazakhstan's figure about 2.0 times China's.

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

China ranks 6th and Kazakhstan ranks 4th of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade China Kazakhstan Difference Ahead
2000s 8,350 1000 ha 17,771 1000 ha 9,422 1000 ha Kazakhstan
2010s 8,570 1000 ha 17,738 1000 ha 9,168 1000 ha Kazakhstan
2020s 8,795 1000 ha 17,806 1000 ha 9,011 1000 ha Kazakhstan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher inland water bodies — area from modis, China or Kazakhstan?
Kazakhstan, at 17,833 1000 ha against 8,896 1000 ha in China as of 2024.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from modis between China and Kazakhstan?
8,937 1000 ha, with Kazakhstan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for China and Kazakhstan?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do China and Kazakhstan rank globally for inland water bodies — area from modis?
China ranks 6th and Kazakhstan ranks 4th 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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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
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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.