Coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — Area from CGLS was 234.93 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
234.93 1000 ha
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
33rd
of 171 countries
All-time high
234.93 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
234.93 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia, 2015–2019

0501001502002502015201720192015: 234.9 1000 ha2016: 234.9 1000 ha2017: 234.9 1000 ha2018: 234.9 1000 ha2019: 234.9 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Saudi Arabia recorded 234.93 1000 ha for coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over five years.

That places Saudi Arabia 33rd out of 171 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.

Coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia, year by year

Annual values for Coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — Area from CGLS in Saudi Arabia, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 234.93 1000 ha
2016 234.93 1000 ha +0.0%
2017 234.93 1000 ha +0.0%
2018 234.93 1000 ha +0.0%
2019 234.93 1000 ha +0.0%

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Frequently asked questions

What is coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — area from cgls in Saudi Arabia?
Coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — area from cgls in Saudi Arabia was 234.93 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — area from cgls recorded in Saudi Arabia?
The highest recorded value was 234.93 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — area from cgls recorded in Saudi Arabia?
The lowest recorded value was 234.93 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Saudi Arabia rank for coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — area from cgls?
Saudi Arabia ranks 33rd out of 171 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Saudi Arabia data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Coastal water bodies and intertidal areas — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
214 places, 1,070 data points, 2015–2019
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.