Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in United States of America

United States of America: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 30,793 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
30,793 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.5%
Rank
6th
of 26 groups
All-time high
30,793 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
30,100 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in United States of America, 2015–2019

010.0k20.0k30.0k2015201720192015: 30.1k 1000 ha2016: 30.4k 1000 ha2017: 30.6k 1000 ha2018: 30.6k 1000 ha2019: 30.8k 1000 ha

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

Analysis

United States of America recorded 30,793 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.5% on the previous year and up 2.3% over five years.

United States of America ranks 6th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.

Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in United States of America, year by year

Annual values for Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in United States of America, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 30,100 1000 ha
2016 30,405 1000 ha +1.0%
2017 30,626 1000 ha +0.7%
2018 30,647 1000 ha +0.1%
2019 30,793 1000 ha +0.5%

Countries ranked near United States of America

  1. 3 Kazakhstan 16,657 1000 ha compare
  2. 3 United Republic of Tanzania 5,522 1000 ha compare
  3. 4 China 11,528 1000 ha compare
  4. 5 China, mainland 11,471 1000 ha compare
  5. 5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3,590 1000 ha compare
  6. 6 Brazil 9,289 1000 ha compare
  7. 6 Türkiye 1,120 1000 ha compare
  8. 7 Turkmenistan 8,903 1000 ha compare
  9. 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,063 1000 ha compare
  10. 8 Azerbaijan 7,926 1000 ha compare
  11. 8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,036 1000 ha compare
  12. 9 Uganda 3,606 1000 ha compare
  13. 9 Melanesia 730.5 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in United States of America?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in United States of America was 30,793 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 United States of America?
The highest recorded value was 30,793 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in United States of America?
The lowest recorded value was 30,100 1000 ha in 2015.
How does United States of America rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
United States of America ranks 6th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this United States of America 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.