Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Madagascar

Madagascar: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 174.98 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
174.98 1000 ha
Change on year
up 1.4%
World rank
74th
of 215 countries
All-time high
176.48 1000 ha
in 2016
All-time low
166.68 1000 ha
in 2017
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

0501001502002015201720192015: 171 1000 ha2016: 176.5 1000 ha2017: 166.7 1000 ha2018: 172.6 1000 ha2019: 175 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Madagascar recorded 174.98 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019.

The figure is up 1.4% on the previous year and up 2.3% over five years.

That places Madagascar 74th out of 215 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Madagascar

  1. 71 Burundi 198.43 1000 ha compare
  2. 72 Lao People's Democratic Republic 193.98 1000 ha compare
  3. 73 Suriname 175.76 1000 ha compare
  4. 75 Romania 173.92 1000 ha compare
  5. 76 Mali 170.09 1000 ha compare
  6. 77 Cameroon 167.93 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Madagascar?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Madagascar was 174.98 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 Madagascar?
The highest recorded value was 176.48 1000 ha in 2016.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Madagascar?
The lowest recorded value was 166.68 1000 ha in 2017.
How does Madagascar rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Madagascar ranks 74th out of 215 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Madagascar 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.