Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Réunion

Réunion: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 0.77 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
0.77 1000 ha
Change on year
up 8.5%
Rank
28th
of 28 groups
All-time high
0.77 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
0.54 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

00.20.40.60.82015201720192015: 0.54 1000 ha2016: 0.71 1000 ha2017: 0.73 1000 ha2018: 0.71 1000 ha2019: 0.77 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 Réunion stood at 0.77 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 8.5% on the previous year and up 42.6% over five years.

Réunion ranks 28th of 28 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

Countries ranked near Réunion

  1. 25 Mexico 1,364 1000 ha compare
  2. 26 Peru 1,210 1000 ha compare
  3. 27 Kenya 1,176 1000 ha compare
  4. 28 Zambia 1,131 1000 ha compare
  5. 29 Türkiye 1,120 1000 ha compare
  6. 30 Mozambique 1,074 1000 ha compare
  7. 31 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,063 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Réunion?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Réunion was 0.77 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 Réunion?
The highest recorded value was 0.77 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Réunion?
The lowest recorded value was 0.54 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Réunion rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Réunion ranks 28th out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Réunion 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.