Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Iceland
Iceland: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 227.96 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising
Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Iceland, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Iceland recorded 227.96 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.5% on the previous year and up 10.5% over five years.
That places Iceland 59th out of 199 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Iceland, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 206.38 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 221.78 1000 ha | +7.5% |
| 2017 | 222.55 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 222.44 1000 ha | -0.0% |
| 2019 | 227.96 1000 ha | +2.5% |
Iceland compared with similar countries
- Iceland's 227.96 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 46.55 1000 ha, 4.9× the median. (67 countries reporting)
- Iceland's 227.96 1000 ha is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 102.1 1000 ha, 2.2× the median. (50 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Iceland
More environment data for Iceland
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 3.89 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.587 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.47 °C (2025)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 0.8549 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate -1.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Iceland?
- Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Iceland was 227.96 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 Iceland?
- The highest recorded value was 227.96 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Iceland?
- The lowest recorded value was 206.38 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Iceland rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
- Iceland ranks 59th out of 199 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Iceland 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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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.