Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS in Ghana
Ghana: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS was 668.75 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS in Ghana, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Ghana recorded 668.75 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from modis in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 2.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, inland water bodies — area from modis in Ghana peaked at 668.75 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 632.86 1000 ha, in 2003.
Ghana ranks 48th of 240 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 633.52 1000 ha | 632.86 1000 ha | 635.61 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 650.29 1000 ha | 637.15 1000 ha | 656.75 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 662.86 1000 ha | 657.99 1000 ha | 668.75 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
- 45 Myanmar 709.35 1000 ha compare
- 46 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 696.63 1000 ha compare
- 47 Bangladesh 676.8 1000 ha compare
- 49 Kyrgyzstan 666.06 1000 ha compare
- 50 Nigeria 473.81 1000 ha compare
- 51 Viet Nam 464.4 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Ghana
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 3.01 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 223 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 1,100 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 22.79 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 41.14 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 5,186 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 21.48 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 2,708 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 37.37 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 4,710 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is inland water bodies — area from modis in Ghana?
- Inland water bodies — area from modis in Ghana was 668.75 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 Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 668.75 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from modis recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 632.86 1000 ha in 2003.
- How does Ghana rank for inland water bodies — area from modis?
- Ghana ranks 48th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is inland water bodies — area from modis rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana 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.