Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Portugal

Portugal: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 78.39 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
78.39 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.6%
World rank
91st
of 197 countries
All-time high
78.83 1000 ha
in 2018
All-time low
74.26 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

0204060802015201720192015: 74.3 1000 ha2016: 78.3 1000 ha2017: 77.2 1000 ha2018: 78.8 1000 ha2019: 78.4 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Portugal recorded 78.39 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019.

That represents a change of down 0.6% on the previous year and up 5.6% over five years.

That places Portugal 91st out of 197 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Portugal

  1. 88 Lithuania 86.63 1000 ha compare
  2. 89 Latvia 86.18 1000 ha compare
  3. 90 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 84.42 1000 ha compare
  4. 92 Angola 77.69 1000 ha compare
  5. 93 Bulgaria 77.55 1000 ha compare
  6. 94 Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of 72.26 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Portugal?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Portugal was 78.39 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 Portugal?
The highest recorded value was 78.83 1000 ha in 2018.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Portugal?
The lowest recorded value was 74.26 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Portugal rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Portugal ranks 91st out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Portugal 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.