About This Map
This interactive map displays the distribution of major natural resources across the world. The data includes population, GDP, land area, forest area, Renewable internal freshwater resources, and mineral reserves such as rare earth elements, iron, copper, and lithium.
You can explore different resource distributions by selecting from the menu on the left side. The search functionality allows you to find specific countries and their data.
Data Sources
The data on population, GDP, land area, arable land, forest area, and 2021 renewable internal freshwater resources for countries worldwide are sourced from the World Development Indicators published by the World Bank.
The 2024 data on rare earth reserves, iron reserves, copper reserves, and lithium reserves originate from the Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 – World Production, Capacity, and Reserves Commodity Data Release published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). (The data of 0 is the default value in the official data)
The 2020 global mangrove distribution data is derived from the Global Mangrove Watch (1996–2020) Version 3.0 dataset released by the Global Mangrove Watch organization.The study has used L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) global mosaic datasets from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for 11 epochs from 1996 to 2020 to develop a long-term time-series of global mangrove extent and change. The study used a map-to-image approach to change detection where the baseline map (GMW v2.5) was updated using thresholding and a contextual mangrove change mask. This approach was applied between all image-date pairs producing 10 maps for each epoch, which were summarised to produce the global mangrove time-series. The resulting mangrove extent maps had an estimated accuracy of 87.4 % (95th conf. int.: 86.2 - 88.6 %), although the accuracies of the individual gain and loss change classes were lower at 58.1 % (52.4 - 63.9 %) and 60.6 % (56.1 - 64.8 %), respectively. Sources of error included a mis-registration in the SAR mosaic datasets, which could only be partially corrected for, but also confusion in fragmented areas of mangroves, such as around aquaculture ponds. Overall, 152,604 km2 (133,996 - 176,910) of mangroves were identified for 1996, with this decreasing by -5,245 km2 (-13,587 - 3686) resulting in a total extent of 147,359 km2 (127,925 - 168,895) in 2020, and representing an estimated loss of 3.4 % over the 24-year time period. The Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0 represents the most comprehensive record of global mangrove change achieved to date and is expected to support a wide range of activities, including the ongoing monitoring of the global coastal environment, defining and assessments of progress towards conservation targets, protected area planning and risk assessments of mangrove ecosystems worldwide.
External Links
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 | World Development Indicators | Global Mangrove Watch
| Country Name | Population (2023) | GDP (2023, US$) | Land Area (2022, km²) | Arable Land (2021, ha) | Forest Area (2022, km²) | Renewable internal freshwater (2021, billion m³) | Rare earth reserves (2024, t) | Iron reserves (2024, kt) | Copper reserves (2024, kt) | Lithium reserves (2024, t) | Mangrove Area (2020, ha) |
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