Table 1.

Changes in the number and area of all lakes >1 km² in China between the mid-1980s and 2015.

		Lake number	Lake area (km2)	Lake number	Lake area	Number of	Number of	Change in	Change in lake	Change in	Change in
Region	Lake class	in mid-1980s	in mid-1980s	in 2015	(km2) in 2015	dried-up lakes	new lakes	lake number	number (%)	lake area	lake area (%)
National	1–10	2115	5674.1	2072	5369.7	168	125	−43	−2.0	−304.4	−5.4
	10–50	411	7165.6	417	8493.4	7	13	6	1.5	1327.8	18.5
	>50	273	62 415.5	267	66 624.2	6	0	−6	−2.2	4208.7	6.7
	All	2799	75 255.2	2756	80 487.3	181	138	−43	−1.5	5232.1	7.0
Eastern Plain	1–10	483	1572.8	481	1330.8	2	0	−2	−0.4	−242.0	−15.4
	10–50	89	1916.5	88	1755.6	1	0	−1	−1.1	−160.9	−8.4
	>50	49	15 894.5	49	15 076.0	0	0	0	0	−818.5	−5.1
	All	621	19 383.9	618	18 162.4	3	0	−3	−0.5	−1221.5	−6.3
Mong-Xin Plateau	1–10	478	1260.4	373	824.6	110	5	−105	−22.0	−435.7	−34.6
	10–50	30	463.2	28	485.9	5	3	−2	−6.7	22.7	4.9
	>50	23	6449.6	19	5933.0	4	0	−4	−17.4	−516.6	−8.0
	All	531	8173.1	420	7243.6	119	8	−111	−20.9	−929.6	−11.4
Northeast Plain	1–10	485	1251.5	440	714.3	45	0	−45	−9.3	−537.2	−42.9
	10–50	56	948.9	55	697.9	1	0	−1	−1.8	−251.0	−26.5
	>50	14	5844.8	14	5786.4	0	0	0	0	−58.4	−1.0
	All	555	8045.2	509	7198.6	46	0	−46	−8.3	−846.6	−10.5
Yun-Gui Plateau	1–10	15	46.1	13	44.0	2	0	−2	−13.3	−2.1	−4.6
	10–50	8	192.3	8	179.1	0	0	0	0	−13.2	−6.9
	>50	4	818.5	4	829.1	0	0	0	0	10.6	1.3
	All	27	1056.9	25	1052.2	2	0	−2	−7.4	−4.7	−0.4
Tibetan Plateau	1–10	654	1543.3	765	2456.0	9	120	111	17.0	912.6	59.1
	10–50	228	3644.6	238	5374.8	0	10	10	4.4	1730.2	47.5
	>50	183	33 408.1	181	38 999.7	2	0	−2	−1.1	5591.7	16.7
	All	1065	38 596.0	1184	46 830.5	11	130	119	11.2	8234.5	21.3