environmental2022

Permanent lakes and rivers water area as a share of land area

Name: Permanent lakes and rivers water area as a share of land area
Creator: United Nations SDG Global Database
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, un-sdg, surface-water

Compare permanent lakes and rivers water area as a share of land area across 208 ISO-mapped countries or territories using the fixed 2022 UN SDG Global Database slice.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database•208 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

1.6%

Median: 0.4%

Countries Covered

208

with available data

Highest

Azerbaijan

90.5%

Lowest

Sao Tome and Principe

0.0%

Top 5 Countries

1Azerbaijan90.5%

2Malawi19.8%

3Turkmenistan18.1%

4Saint Martin (French part)11.0%

5Sint Maarten (Dutch part)10.5%

By Region

Key Findings

•208 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2022 observation in the selected slice.
•Azerbaijan has the highest published value (90.49906 %).
•Sao Tome and Principe has the lowest published value (0.00004 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0%)High (90.5%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 1.6%)

About This Statistic

Permanent lakes and rivers water area expressed as a percentage of total land area.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and dimension slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicates and other dimensions are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

Permanent lakes and rivers water area expressed as a percentage of total land area.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Azerbaijan	90.5%
2	Malawi	19.8%
3	Turkmenistan	18.1%
4	Saint Martin (French part)	11.0%
5	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.5%
6	Canada	9.3%
7	Bahamas	8.1%
8	Nicaragua	7.2%
9	Burundi	7.0%
10	Finland	6.6%
11	Rwanda	5.8%
12	Kazakhstan	5.7%
13	Estonia	4.5%
14	Armenia	4.4%
15	Macao	4.4%
16	Greenland	4.2%
17	Kyrgyzstan	3.5%
18	Islamic Republic of Iran	3.4%
19	Uganda	3.3%
20	Switzerland	3.1%
21	Virgin Islands, British	3.1%
22	French Polynesia	2.8%
23	United States of America	2.6%
24	Russian Federation	2.5%
25	United Republic of Tanzania	2.3%
26	Tonga	2.2%
27	Israel	2.0%
28	Norway	1.9%
29	Uzbekistan	1.9%
30	Cambodia	1.9%
31	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.8%
32	The Republic of North Macedonia	1.8%
33	Hong Kong	1.6%
34	Iceland	1.6%
35	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.5%
36	Chile	1.5%
37	Cayman Islands	1.4%
38	Singapore	1.4%
39	Kenya	1.4%
40	Belize	1.3%
41	Lithuania	1.3%
42	Ireland	1.3%
43	New Zealand	1.2%
44	Hungary	1.2%
45	Latvia	1.2%
46	Zambia	1.2%
47	Cuba	1.1%
48	Bangladesh	1.1%
49	People's Republic of China	1.1%
50	Mozambique	1.0%
51	Denmark	1.0%
52	Poland	1.0%
53	Guatemala	1.0%
54	Germany	0.9%
55	Peru	0.9%
56	Türkiye	0.9%
57	Republic of The Gambia	0.9%
58	Argentina	0.9%
59	Mongolia	0.9%
60	Sri Lanka	0.9%
61	Bolivia	0.9%
62	Albania	0.8%
63	Tajikistan	0.8%
64	Philippines	0.8%
65	Dominican Republic	0.8%
66	Vietnam	0.8%
67	El Salvador	0.8%
68	Faroe Islands	0.8%
69	United Kingdom	0.7%
70	Brazil	0.7%
71	Romania	0.7%
72	Moldova, Republic of	0.7%
73	Ecuador	0.7%
74	Mauritius	0.7%
75	Curaçao	0.7%
76	Austria	0.7%
77	Ukraine	0.7%
78	Italy	0.6%
79	Colombia	0.6%
80	Haiti	0.6%
81	Antigua and Barbuda	0.6%
82	Gabon	0.6%
83	Ethiopia	0.6%
84	Djibouti	0.6%
85	Venezuela	0.6%
86	Papua New Guinea	0.5%
87	Greece	0.5%
88	Uruguay	0.5%
89	Jordan	0.5%
90	Liechtenstein	0.5%
91	Serbia	0.5%
92	Republic of the Congo	0.5%
93	South Korea	0.5%
94	France	0.5%
95	Indonesia	0.5%
96	Czech Republic	0.5%
97	Bahrain	0.5%
98	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.5%
99	Iraq	0.5%
100	Myanmar	0.5%
101	Solomon Islands	0.4%
102	Northern Mariana Islands	0.4%
103	Thailand	0.4%
104	North Korea	0.4%
105	Honduras	0.4%
106	Japan	0.4%
107	Virgin Islands, U.S.	0.4%
108	Belgium	0.4%
109	Bulgaria	0.4%
110	Gibraltar	0.4%
111	Pakistan	0.3%
112	Brunei Darussalam	0.3%
113	Georgia	0.3%
114	Paraguay	0.3%
115	Tuvalu	0.3%
116	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.3%
117	Madagascar	0.3%
118	Marshall Islands	0.3%
119	Mexico	0.3%
120	Puerto Rico	0.3%
121	Seychelles	0.3%
122	Senegal	0.3%
123	Aruba	0.3%
124	Croatia	0.3%
125	India	0.3%
126	Benin	0.2%
127	Vanuatu	0.2%
128	American Samoa	0.2%
129	Nauru	0.2%
130	Malaysia	0.2%
131	Slovakia	0.2%
132	Slovenia	0.2%
133	Portugal	0.2%
134	Egypt	0.2%
135	Bhutan	0.2%
136	Guyana	0.2%
137	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.2%
138	Syrian Arab Republic	0.2%
139	Nigeria	0.2%
140	New Caledonia	0.2%
141	Cape Verde	0.2%
142	Cameroon	0.2%
143	Kuwait	0.1%
144	Guinea-Bissau	0.1%
145	Palau	0.1%
146	Qatar	0.1%
147	Nepal	0.1%
148	Montenegro	0.1%
149	Trinidad and Tobago	0.1%
150	Chad	0.1%
151	Isle of Man	0.1%
152	Spain	0.1%
153	Kiribati	0.1%
154	Guam	0.1%
155	Comoros	0.1%
156	South Africa	0.1%
157	Monaco	0.1%
158	Andorra	0.1%
159	Luxembourg	0.1%
160	Sierra Leone	0.1%
161	Zimbabwe	0.1%
162	Suriname	0.1%
163	Grenada	0.1%
164	Jamaica	0.1%
165	Ghana	0.1%
166	Samoa	0.1%
167	Costa Rica	0.1%
168	Cyprus	0.1%
169	South Sudan	0.1%
170	Afghanistan	0.1%
171	Mali	0.1%
172	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.1%
173	Central African Republic	0.1%
174	Equatorial Guinea	0.1%
175	Sudan	0.1%
176	Malta	0.1%
177	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1%
178	Panama	0.1%
179	Australia	0.1%
180	Eritrea	0.1%
181	Fiji	0.1%
182	Tunisia	0.1%
183	Angola	0.0%
184	Eswatini	0.0%
185	Burkina Faso	0.0%
186	Botswana	0.0%
187	Namibia	0.0%
188	Saint Lucia	0.0%
189	Morocco	0.0%
190	Guinea	0.0%
191	Bermuda	0.0%
192	Timor-Leste	0.0%
193	Niger	0.0%
194	Lesotho	0.0%
195	Lebanon	0.0%
196	Liberia	0.0%
197	Togo	0.0%
198	Somalia	0.0%
199	Yemen	0.0%
200	Oman	0.0%
201	Saudi Arabia	0.0%
202	Mauritania	0.0%
203	Barbados	0.0%
204	Algeria	0.0%
205	Libya	0.0%
206	Dominica	0.0%
207	San Marino	0.0%
208	Sao Tome and Principe	0.0%

Showing 208 of 208 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2022).

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