Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Namibia

Namibia: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 32.73 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
32.73 1000 ha
Change on year
down 2.1%
World rank
122nd
of 199 countries
All-time high
33.44 1000 ha
in 2018
All-time low
31.3 1000 ha
in 2016
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

01020302015201720192015: 32.7 1000 ha2016: 31.3 1000 ha2017: 33 1000 ha2018: 33.4 1000 ha2019: 32.7 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Namibia recorded 32.73 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.1% on the previous year and up 0.1% over five years.

That places Namibia 122nd out of 199 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

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

Annual values for Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Namibia, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 32.69 1000 ha —
2016 31.3 1000 ha -4.3%
2017 32.99 1000 ha +5.4%
2018 33.44 1000 ha +1.4%
2019 32.73 1000 ha -2.1%

Namibia compared with similar countries

  • Namibia's 32.73 1000 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 89.21 1000 ha, 37% of the median. (40 countries reporting)
  • Namibia's 32.73 1000 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 45.72 1000 ha, 72% of the median. (44 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Namibia

  1. 119 Fiji 35.47 1000 ha compare
  2. 120 Vanuatu 34.48 1000 ha compare
  3. 121 Tunisia 32.89 1000 ha compare
  4. 123 Costa Rica 31.35 1000 ha compare
  5. 124 Benin 29.2 1000 ha compare
  6. 125 Georgia 28.64 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Namibia?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Namibia was 32.73 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 Namibia?
The highest recorded value was 33.44 1000 ha in 2018.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Namibia?
The lowest recorded value was 31.3 1000 ha in 2016.
How does Namibia rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Namibia ranks 122nd out of 199 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Namibia 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.