Area - Inland water

Inland water is the area occupied by major rivers, lakes and reservoirs.

Inland water (thousand hectares)

	1970	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Albania	135	135	135	135	135	135	135	135	135	33	33	33	33	33	33	33
Argentina	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371	4,371
Armenia			127	127	127	127	127	127	127	127	127	127	127	127	127	127
Australia	5,892	5,892	5,892	5,892	5,892	5,892	5,892	5,892	5,892	5,892	4,920	4,920	4,920	4,920	4,920	4,920
Austria	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136	136
Azerbaijan			400	394	394	394	394	394	394	394	393	394	395	396	395	395
Bahamas	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387	387
Bangladesh	1,829	1,829	1,829	1,829	1,829	1,829	1,829	1,829	1,746	1,746	1,746	1,781	1,740	1,740	1,740	1,740
Belarus			475	477	470	469	470	469	463	462	461	461	462	464	463	468
Belgium			25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25
Belize	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Benin	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200
Bhutan	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	25	25	25	25	25	25
Bolivia	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528	1,528
Bosnia and Herzegovina			1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Botswana	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500
Brazil	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763	15,763
Brunei Darussalam	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50
Bulgaria	36	36	36	236	239	239	239	239	239	239	239	239	239	239	239	239
Burkina Faso	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62
Burundi	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215	215
Cambodia	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452	452
Cameroon	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273	273
Canada	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	91,416	1,08,496
Chad	2,400	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480	2,480
Chile	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256	1,256
China	17,530	17,533	17,530	17,530	17,530	17,530	17,530	17,530	17,531	17,531	17,531	17,531	17,531	17,531	17,531	17,531
हांगकांग	5	8	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Taiwan Province of China	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55
Colombia	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,112	3,112
Congo	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50
Costa Rica	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Côte d'Ivoire	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446	446
Croatia			63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63
Cuba	249	249	249	345	344	302	323	566	586	578	584	608	608	608	608	608
Cyprus	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Democratic Republic of the Congo	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781	7,781
Denmark	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292	292
Djibouti	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Dominican Republic	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	67	67	67
Ecuador	672	672	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801
Egypt	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600
El Salvador	19	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32
Eritrea			1,660	66	59	59	59	59	59	59	59	59	59	59	59	59
Estonia			284	284	284	284	284	187	187	187	187	259	259	259	259	259
Ethiopia			10,430	764	767	767	766	767	770	770	768	769	768	767	767	767
Finland	3,356	3,356	3,356	3,356	3,452	3,453	3,453	3,453	3,453	3,454	3,454	3,453	3,453	3,453	3,453	3,452
France	152	152	152	153	153	153	153	153	153	153	153	153	153	153	153	153
Gabon	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000
Gambia	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118	118
Georgia			21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21
Germany	784	784	808	833	856	858	863	846	848	855	789	788	787	786	786	786
Ghana	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100	1,100
Greece	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306	306
Guatemala	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173	173
Guinea	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Guinea Bissau	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801	801
Guyana	1,826	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812	1,812
Haiti	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19
Honduras	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
Hungary	305	316	341	342	250	250	250	250	177	177	177	177	177	177	177	177
Iceland	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	217	217	217	217
India	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407	31,407
Indonesia	9,936	9,936	3,341	3,341	3,341	3,341	3,341	3,341	3,341	3,606	3,606	3,930	3,934	3,934	3,934	3,934
Iran	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639	11,639
Iraq	95	95	95	95	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92
Ireland	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139	139
Israel	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	43
Italy	723	723	635	635	635	635	635	635	635	635	635	635	635	635	635	635
Jamaica	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Japan	1,110	1,320	1,330	1,341	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340	1,340
Jordan	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	52	52	52
Kazakhstan			2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520	2,520
Kenya	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123	1,123
Kyrgyzstan			815	815	815	815	815	815	815	815	815	815	815	815	815	815
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600
Latvia			237	237	237	237	237	237	237	237	237	237	237	237	237	237
Lebanon	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22
Liberia	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505	1,505
Lithuania			262	262	263	263	263	263	264	264	264	265	266	267	267	268
Madagascar	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550	550
Malawi	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420	2,420
Malaysia	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225	225
Mali	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000
Mauritius	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Mexico	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043	2,043
Mongolia	1,668	1,668	1,668	968	683	687	687	687	687	686	686	686	686	686	661	661
Montenegro					36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36
Morocco	21	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25
Mozambique	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300
Myanmar	2,305	2,305	2,305	2,323	2,333	2,330	2,344	2,351	2,351	2,351	2,381	2,384	2,389	2,389	2,392	2,392
Namibia	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Nepal	418	418	383	383	383	383	383	383	383	383	383	383	383	383	383	383
New Zealand	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440
Nicaragua	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003	1,003
Niger	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30
Nigeria	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300
Norway	1,993	1,993	1,993	1,993	1,993	1,993	1,993	2,008	2,010	1,998	2,003	2,008	2,010	2,011	2,020	2,022
Pakistan	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522	2,522
Panama	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	114	114	114	114
Papua New Guinea	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998	998
Paraguay	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945	945
Peru	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522	522
Philippines	174	183	183	183	183	183	183	183	183	183	183	183	183	183	183	183
Poland	640	640	640	636	640	645	646	647	649	649	649	651	652	658	658	661
Portugal	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62
Republic of Korea	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280
Republic of Moldova			96	96	100	100	99	97	97	97	97	96	96	96	97	88
Romania	805	904	868	841	834	822	837	836	831	831	832	832	832	832	832	832
Russian Federation			71,690	71,685	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138	72,138
Rwanda	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167	167
Saint Lucia	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Samoa	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Senegal	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418	418
Serbia					90	90	90	90	90	90	90	90	90	90	90	90
Sierra Leone	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Singapore	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Slovakia			93	93	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95
Slovenia			13	13	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14
Solomon Islands	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91
Somalia	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032	1,032
South Africa	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600	600
Spain	621	655	600	628	559	572	573	573	573	626	637	639	635	638	641	623
Sri Lanka	290	290	290	290	290	290	290	290	290	372	372	372	375	375	375	375
Suriname	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782	782
Sweden	4,008	4,008	4,008	4,008	4,008	4,008	4,008	4,008	4,008	4,012	4,012	4,012	4,012	4,014	4,014	4,014
Switzerland	176	176	177	177	178	178	178	178	178	178	178	178	178	178	178	178
Syrian Arab Republic	140	140	140	161	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	155
Tajikistan			259	259	259	259	259	259	259	259	259	259	259	259	259	259
Thailand	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223	223
Togo	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240
Tonga	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Tunisia	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825	825
Turkmenistan			1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817	1,817
Uganda	4,174	4,174	4,174	4,174	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103	4,103
Ukraine			2,420	2,417	2,423	2,423	2,423	2,423	2,426	2,426	2,426	2,425	2,415	2,415	2,415	2,415
United Republic of Tanzania	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150	6,150
United States of America	47,013	47,013	47,011	47,011	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409	68,409
Uruguay	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120	120
Uzbekistan			814	825	821	829	830	831	831	832	833	834	834	837	827	827
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000
Viet Nam	620	554	1,818	1,838	1,766	1,767	1,749	1,795	1,786	1,785	1,784	1,783	1,780	1,780	1,780	1,780
Zambia	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922	922
Zimbabwe	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391	391
Luxembourg			2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Sudan							1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000
South Sudan							198	198	198	198	198	198	198	198	198	198
Czech Republic			159	161	163	163	164	164	165	165	166	166	167	166	167	168
United Kingdom	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168	168
United Arab Emirates	29	29	21	19	19	19	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18
Afghanistan	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63	63

Inland water (thousand hectares)

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