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

Somalia
162.84 1000 ha
in 2024
Sri Lanka
172.07 1000 ha
in 2024
Somalia rank
77th
Sri Lanka rank
75th

Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS over time

  • Somalia
  • Sri Lanka
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How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 172.07 1000 ha against 162.84 1000 ha in Somalia, a difference of 9.23 1000 ha.

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

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

Somalia ranks 77th and Sri Lanka ranks 75th of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Somalia Sri Lanka Difference Ahead
2000s 162.33 1000 ha 169.41 1000 ha 7.08 1000 ha Sri Lanka
2010s 162.34 1000 ha 169.61 1000 ha 7.26 1000 ha Sri Lanka
2020s 162.44 1000 ha 171.03 1000 ha 8.59 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, Somalia or Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka, at 172.07 1000 ha against 162.84 1000 ha in Somalia as of 2024.
What is the difference in inland water bodies — area from modis between Somalia and Sri Lanka?
9.23 1000 ha, with Sri Lanka ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Somalia and Sri Lanka?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Somalia and Sri Lanka rank globally for inland water bodies — area from modis?
Somalia ranks 77th and Sri Lanka ranks 75th 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
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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.