Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Palestine

Palestine: Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS was 17.29 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
17.29 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.1%
World rank
132nd
of 199 countries
All-time high
17.29 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
17.26 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

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

0510152015201720192015: 17.3 1000 ha2016: 17.3 1000 ha2017: 17.3 1000 ha2018: 17.3 1000 ha2019: 17.3 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 Palestine stood at 17.29 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.2% over five years.

That places Palestine 132nd out of 199 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Palestine, year by year

Annual values for Inland water bodies — Area from CGLS in Palestine, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 17.26 1000 ha
2016 17.28 1000 ha +0.1%
2017 17.28 1000 ha +0.0%
2018 17.28 1000 ha +0.0%
2019 17.29 1000 ha +0.1%

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from cgls in Palestine?
Inland water bodies — area from cgls in Palestine was 17.29 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 Palestine?
The highest recorded value was 17.29 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from cgls recorded in Palestine?
The lowest recorded value was 17.26 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Palestine rank for inland water bodies — area from cgls?
Palestine ranks 132nd out of 199 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Palestine 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.