Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Algeria

Algeria: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 41.89 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
41.89 1000 ha
Change on year
up 6.6%
World rank
127th
of 215 countries
All-time high
44.24 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
39.28 1000 ha
in 2018
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Algeria, 2015–2019

0102030402015201720192015: 44.2 1000 ha2016: 42.8 1000 ha2017: 40 1000 ha2018: 39.3 1000 ha2019: 41.9 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Algeria recorded 41.89 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.6% on the previous year and down 5.3% over five years.

That places Algeria 127th out of 215 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Algeria

  1. 124 Burkina Faso 44.47 1000 ha compare
  2. 125 Croatia 43.49 1000 ha compare
  3. 126 Belize 42.41 1000 ha compare
  4. 128 Senegal 41.1 1000 ha compare
  5. 129 Haiti 38.88 1000 ha compare
  6. 130 Fiji 35.47 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Algeria?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Algeria was 41.89 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 Algeria?
The highest recorded value was 44.24 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Algeria?
The lowest recorded value was 39.28 1000 ha in 2018.
How does Algeria rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Algeria ranks 127th out of 215 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Algeria 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

Indicator
Inland water bodies — 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
243 places, 1,215 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.