Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Africa
Africa: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 23,734 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Africa, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Africa recorded 23,734 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 1.5% over five years.
That places Africa 5th out of 39 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Countries ranked near Africa
- 2 Russian Federation 50,119 1000 ha compare
- 3 Kazakhstan, Republic of 16,657 1000 ha compare
- 4 China (People’s Republic of) 11,528 1000 ha compare
- 5 China, mainland 11,471 1000 ha compare
- 6 Brazil 9,289 1000 ha compare
- 7 Turkmenistan 8,903 1000 ha compare
- 8 Azerbaijan, Republic of 7,926 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Africa
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.32 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.213 °C (2025)
- Other industrial roundwood — Production 27.50 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export value 652,409 1000 USD (2024)
- Industrial roundwood, non-coniferous — Production 66.41 million m3 (2024)
- Sawlogs and veneer logs — Production 39.12 million m3 (2024)
- Wood charcoal — Production 38.75 million t (2024)
- Other industrial roundwood, non-coniferous (production) — Production 26.92 million m3 (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Annual growth US$ -1.32 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Africa?
- Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Africa was 23,734 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 23,734 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 23,288 1000 ha in 2016.
- How does Africa rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
- Africa ranks 5th out of 39 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.