Iceland vs Uruguay: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS

Iceland
340.6 1000 ha
in 2024
Uruguay
379.24 1000 ha
in 2024
Iceland rank
54th
Uruguay rank
52nd

Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS over time

  • Iceland
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 379.24 1000 ha against 340.6 1000 ha in Iceland, a difference of 38.64 1000 ha.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.1 times Iceland's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Uruguay ahead.

Iceland ranks 54th and Uruguay ranks 52nd of 218 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Iceland Uruguay Difference Ahead
2000s 375.04 1000 ha 379.46 1000 ha 4.43 1000 ha Uruguay
2010s 367.01 1000 ha 379.1 1000 ha 12.08 1000 ha Uruguay
2020s 344.62 1000 ha 378.87 1000 ha 34.25 1000 ha Uruguay

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher inland water bodies — area from modis, Iceland or Uruguay?
Uruguay, at 379.24 1000 ha against 340.6 1000 ha in Iceland as of 2024.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from modis between Iceland and Uruguay?
38.64 1000 ha, with Uruguay ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Iceland and Uruguay?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Iceland and Uruguay rank globally for inland water bodies — area from modis?
Iceland ranks 54th and Uruguay ranks 52nd 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.