Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Greenland

Greenland: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 1,693 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
1,693 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.7%
World rank
21st
of 215 countries
All-time high
1,693 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
1,631 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

05001.0k1.5k2015201720192015: 1.6k 1000 ha2016: 1.7k 1000 ha2017: 1.7k 1000 ha2018: 1.7k 1000 ha2019: 1.7k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Greenland recorded 1,693 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 0.7% on the previous year and up 3.8% over five years.

That places Greenland 21st out of 215 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.

Countries ranked near Greenland

  1. 18 Malawi 2,336 1000 ha compare
  2. 19 India 2,113 1000 ha compare
  3. 20 Australia and New Zealand 2,058 1000 ha compare
  4. 22 Australia 1,534 1000 ha compare
  5. 23 Norway 1,412 1000 ha compare
  6. 24 Mongolia 1,389 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Greenland?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Greenland was 1,693 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 Greenland?
The highest recorded value was 1,693 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Greenland?
The lowest recorded value was 1,631 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Greenland rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Greenland ranks 21st out of 215 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Greenland 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.