Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS was 17,332 1000 ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS in Eastern Africa, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for inland water bodies — area from modis in Eastern Africa is 17,332 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.1% on the previous year and up 3.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, inland water bodies — area from modis in Eastern Africa peaked at 17,332 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 16,632 1000 ha, in 2017.
Eastern Africa ranks 7th of 44 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 16,892 1000 ha | 16,711 1000 ha | 17,052 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 16,761 1000 ha | 16,632 1000 ha | 16,866 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,106 1000 ha | 16,914 1000 ha | 17,332 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 4 Kazakhstan 17,833 1000 ha compare
- 5 Brazil 9,006 1000 ha compare
- 6 China (People’s Republic of) 8,896 1000 ha compare
- 7 Turkmenistan 8,865 1000 ha compare
- 8 China, mainland 8,813 1000 ha compare
- 9 Azerbaijan 7,942 1000 ha compare
- 10 Greenland 6,079 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Eastern Africa
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -7.18 Percentage change (2025)
- Temperature change 1.28 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.229 °C (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -5.98 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -5.69 Percentage change (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import value -0.3367 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -5.99 Percentage change (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 25.02 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is inland water bodies — area from modis in Eastern Africa?
- Inland water bodies — area from modis in Eastern Africa was 17,332 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest inland water bodies — area from modis recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 17,332 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from modis recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 16,632 1000 ha in 2017.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for inland water bodies — area from modis?
- Eastern Africa ranks 7th out of 44 groups with data for 2024.
- Is inland water bodies — area from modis rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Eastern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.