Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Viet Nam

Viet Nam: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 506.06 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
506.06 1000 ha
Change on year
down 0.4%
Rank
26th
of 39 regions
All-time high
507.94 1000 ha
in 2018
All-time low
456.3 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

02004006002015201720192015: 456.3 1000 ha2016: 478.7 1000 ha2017: 506.6 1000 ha2018: 507.9 1000 ha2019: 506.1 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Viet Nam recorded 506.06 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from cgls in 2019.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 10.9% over five years.

That places Viet Nam 26th out of 39 regions with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Viet Nam

  1. 23 Peru 1,210 1000 ha compare
  2. 24 Kenya 1,176 1000 ha compare
  3. 25 Zambia 1,131 1000 ha compare
  4. 26 Mozambique 1,074 1000 ha compare
  5. 27 Uzbekistan 1,039 1000 ha compare
  6. 28 Ukraine 1,007 1000 ha compare
  7. 29 Nicaragua 960.62 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Viet Nam?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Viet Nam was 506.06 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 Viet Nam?
The highest recorded value was 507.94 1000 ha in 2018.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Viet Nam?
The lowest recorded value was 456.3 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Viet Nam rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Viet Nam ranks 26th out of 39 regions with data for 2019.
Where does this Viet Nam 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.