Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Melanesia

Melanesia: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 730.5 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
730.5 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.1%
World rank
9th
of 18 countries
All-time high
734.77 1000 ha
in 2017
All-time low
708.7 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

02004006008002015201720192015: 708.7 1000 ha2016: 711.2 1000 ha2017: 734.8 1000 ha2018: 730.9 1000 ha2019: 730.5 1000 ha

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

Analysis

In 2019, inland water bodies — area from cgls in Melanesia stood at 730.5 1000 ha.

The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 3.1% over five years.

Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Melanesia, year by year

Annual values for Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Melanesia, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 708.7 1000 ha —
2016 711.17 1000 ha +0.3%
2017 734.77 1000 ha +3.3%
2018 730.9 1000 ha -0.5%
2019 730.5 1000 ha -0.1%

Countries ranked near Melanesia

  1. 6 Brazil 9,289 1000 ha compare
  2. 6 Türkiye 1,120 1000 ha compare
  3. 7 Turkmenistan 8,903 1000 ha compare
  4. 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,063 1000 ha compare
  5. 8 Azerbaijan 7,926 1000 ha compare
  6. 8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,036 1000 ha compare
  7. 9 Uganda 3,606 1000 ha compare
  8. 10 Sweden 3,380 1000 ha compare
  9. 10 Viet Nam 506.06 1000 ha compare
  10. 11 Argentina 3,190 1000 ha compare
  11. 11 Lao People's Democratic Republic 193.98 1000 ha compare
  12. 12 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 109.2 1000 ha compare
  13. 12 Finland 2,895 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Melanesia?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Melanesia was 730.5 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 Melanesia?
The highest recorded value was 734.77 1000 ha in 2017.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Melanesia?
The lowest recorded value was 708.7 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Melanesia rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Melanesia ranks 9th out of 18 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Melanesia 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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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.