Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Botswana

Botswana: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 45.29 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
45.29 1000 ha
Change on year
down 2.4%
World rank
121st
of 215 countries
All-time high
47.81 1000 ha
in 2017
All-time low
20.49 1000 ha
in 2016
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

010203040502015201720192015: 29.1 1000 ha2016: 20.5 1000 ha2017: 47.8 1000 ha2018: 46.4 1000 ha2019: 45.3 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Botswana recorded 45.29 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.4% on the previous year and up 55.9% over five years.

That places Botswana 121st out of 215 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Botswana

  1. 118 New Caledonia 46.55 1000 ha compare
  2. 119 South Sudan 46.16 1000 ha compare
  3. 120 Czechia 45.33 1000 ha compare
  4. 122 Jordan 44.59 1000 ha compare
  5. 123 Serbia 44.53 1000 ha compare
  6. 124 Burkina Faso 44.47 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Botswana?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Botswana was 45.29 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 Botswana?
The highest recorded value was 47.81 1000 ha in 2017.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Botswana?
The lowest recorded value was 20.49 1000 ha in 2016.
How does Botswana rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Botswana ranks 121st out of 215 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Botswana 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
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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.