The construction of global lake status data base has been introduced in this paper. This is a geological evidence-based semi-quantitative lake level data set. It consists of 6 regional lake vStatus data vsets, i. e. Oxford Lake Level Data Base, European Lake Status Data Bavse. Former Soviet Union and Mongolian Data Base, Updated African Lake Status Data Base and Chinese Lake Level Data BavSe. With uniform criteria, these sub-data-sets are incorporated into the Global Lake Status Data Base. The lake status record from the Global Lake Status Data Base essentially reflect the coherent patterns of changes in moisture condition in the spatio-temporal scale since the last glacial maximum. In the present, lakes from low and mid-latitudes are characterised by lower status whereas the lakevS in high latitudes register higher lake status. From the Last Glacier Maximum to the middle Holocene, the lakes from North America register high in cool period to low in Holocene, indicating the changes in moivSture condition from wetter to drier. The culminating dry period occurs in mid-Holocene. This change pattern of moisture condition is avSsociated with the shift of westerlies related to the presence and non-presence of ice sheet in the North America. In the Afro-Asia monsoon-al sector, the lake status are characterised by lower in the cool period and higher in warm pe-riod, particularly in the early Holocene. The higher lake status from monsoonal sector in early Holocene maintained until mid-Holocene is strongly linked with the increase in summer insolation in Northern Hemisphere. It, therefore, enhances the contrast of land-ocean thermal property, produces the strengthened monsoonal stream jet. The moisture condition changes in the mid-latitude in northern Hemisphere, including the midst of N. America and circum-Mediterranean, are related to the presence of ice sheet in the north and the displacement of the westerlies. But the lake status records in Central Asia show that the culmination of wetter condition appears in the middle Holocene rather than in the early Holocene, which indiactes that the enhanced summer monsoon started to prevail in the low-latitudinal areas in the early Holocence, then gradually expanded northward to experience in the mid-latitude in the middle Holocene.