Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC in Madagascar

Madagascar: Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC was 671.16 1000 ha in 2022. ▼ Falling

Latest (2022)
671.16 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.0%
World rank
55th
of 241 countries
All-time high
728.71 1000 ha
in 2001
All-time low
671.16 1000 ha
in 2022
Years of data
31
1992–2022

Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC in Madagascar, 1992–2022

02004006008001992200720221992: 706.8 1000 ha1993: 706.8 1000 ha1994: 706.7 1000 ha1995: 709.1 1000 ha1996: 716.3 1000 ha1997: 718.2 1000 ha1998: 720.8 1000 ha1999: 722.9 1000 ha2000: 726.2 1000 ha2001: 728.7 1000 ha2002: 726.6 1000 ha2003: 699.6 1000 ha2004: 690 1000 ha2005: 688.7 1000 ha2006: 685.5 1000 ha2007: 682.5 1000 ha2008: 681 1000 ha2009: 679.3 1000 ha2010: 675.5 1000 ha2011: 672.7 1000 ha2012: 672.5 1000 ha2013: 672.3 1000 ha2014: 674.1 1000 ha2015: 674.1 1000 ha2016: 674.1 1000 ha2017: 673.9 1000 ha2018: 673.4 1000 ha2019: 672.4 1000 ha2020: 671.9 1000 ha2021: 671.3 1000 ha2022: 671.2 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Madagascar recorded 671.16 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cci_lc in 2022. That is the lowest value across all 31 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, inland water bodies — area from cci_lc in Madagascar peaked at 728.71 1000 ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 671.16 1000 ha, in 2022.

Madagascar ranks 55th of 241 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 31 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 713.44 1000 ha 706.73 1000 ha 722.89 1000 ha 8
2000s 698.8 1000 ha 679.28 1000 ha 728.71 1000 ha 10
2010s 673.49 1000 ha 672.32 1000 ha 675.47 1000 ha 10
2020s 671.44 1000 ha 671.16 1000 ha 671.9 1000 ha 3

Countries ranked near Madagascar

  1. 52 Ghana 719.62 1000 ha compare
  2. 53 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 701.37 1000 ha compare
  3. 54 Sudan (former) 682.72 1000 ha compare
  4. 56 Pakistan 663.54 1000 ha compare
  5. 57 Malaysia 656.74 1000 ha compare
  6. 58 Cuba 618.48 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cci_lc in Madagascar?
Inland water bodies — area from cci_lc in Madagascar was 671.16 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest inland water bodies — area from cci_lc recorded in Madagascar?
The highest recorded value was 728.71 1000 ha in 2001.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cci_lc recorded in Madagascar?
The lowest recorded value was 671.16 1000 ha in 2022.
How does Madagascar rank for inland water bodies — area from cci_lc?
Madagascar ranks 55th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
Is inland water bodies — area from cci_lc rising or falling in Madagascar?
Over the last ten years it is down 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Madagascar data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Inland water bodies — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
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.