Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Nicaragua

Nicaragua: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 960.62 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
960.62 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.3%
World rank
29th
of 197 countries
All-time high
960.62 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
950.35 1000 ha
in 2016
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

02004006008001.0k2015201720192015: 958.5 1000 ha2016: 950.4 1000 ha2017: 954.1 1000 ha2018: 957.9 1000 ha2019: 960.6 1000 ha

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

Analysis

The most recent figure for inland water bodies — area from cgls in Nicaragua is 960.62 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 0.2% over five years.

That places Nicaragua 29th out of 197 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.

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  1. 26 Mozambique 1,074 1000 ha compare
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  3. 28 Ukraine 1,007 1000 ha compare
  4. 30 Colombia 844.24 1000 ha compare
  5. 31 Kyrgyzstan 720.41 1000 ha compare
  6. 32 Ethiopia 717.33 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Nicaragua?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Nicaragua was 960.62 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 Nicaragua?
The highest recorded value was 960.62 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Nicaragua?
The lowest recorded value was 950.35 1000 ha in 2016.
How does Nicaragua rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Nicaragua ranks 29th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Nicaragua 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.