Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Lesotho
Lesotho: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 3.48 1000 ha in 2019. ▼ Falling
Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Lesotho, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Lesotho recorded 3.48 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.1% on the previous year and down 9.6% over five years.
Lesotho ranks 173rd of 215 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Countries ranked near Lesotho
More environment data for Lesotho
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 0.45 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 2.64 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 73.68 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 79.33 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 2,237 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 0.21 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 6 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 20.46 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 577 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.25 ha/cap (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Lesotho?
- Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Lesotho was 3.48 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 Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 3.85 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 3.48 1000 ha in 2019.
- How does Lesotho rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
- Lesotho ranks 173rd out of 215 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Lesotho 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.