Denmark vs Sri Lanka: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS

Denmark
163.46 1000 ha
in 2024
Sri Lanka
172.07 1000 ha
in 2024
Denmark rank
76th
Sri Lanka rank
75th

Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS over time

  • Denmark
  • Sri Lanka
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How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 172.07 1000 ha against 163.46 1000 ha in Denmark, a difference of 8.61 1000 ha.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.1 times Denmark's.

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

Denmark ranks 76th and Sri Lanka ranks 75th of 218 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Denmark Sri Lanka Difference Ahead
2000s 163.17 1000 ha 169.41 1000 ha 6.24 1000 ha Sri Lanka
2010s 163.31 1000 ha 169.61 1000 ha 6.3 1000 ha Sri Lanka
2020s 163.49 1000 ha 171.03 1000 ha 7.55 1000 ha Sri Lanka

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher inland water bodies — area from modis, Denmark or Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka, at 172.07 1000 ha against 163.46 1000 ha in Denmark as of 2024.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from modis between Denmark and Sri Lanka?
8.61 1000 ha, with Sri Lanka ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Denmark and Sri Lanka?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Denmark and Sri Lanka rank globally for inland water bodies — area from modis?
Denmark ranks 76th and Sri Lanka ranks 75th of 218 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.