Afghanistan vs Namibia: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Afghanistan
78.96 1000 ha
in 2022
Namibia
79.74 1000 ha
in 2022
Afghanistan rank
78th
Namibia rank
77th

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Namibia
20406080199220072022

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 79.74 1000 ha against 78.96 1000 ha in Afghanistan, a difference of 0.78 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Namibia ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 78th and Namibia ranks 77th of 224 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Afghanistan averaged higher in 1 and Namibia in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade Afghanistan Namibia Difference Ahead
1990s 27.15 1000 ha 39.92 1000 ha 12.77 1000 ha Namibia
2000s 39.52 1000 ha 50.74 1000 ha 11.22 1000 ha Namibia
2010s 59.05 1000 ha 59.03 1000 ha 0.018 1000 ha Afghanistan
2020s 75.65 1000 ha 79.07 1000 ha 3.42 1000 ha Namibia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Afghanistan or Namibia?
Namibia, at 79.74 1000 ha against 78.96 1000 ha in Afghanistan as of 2022.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Afghanistan and Namibia?
0.78 1000 ha, with Namibia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Afghanistan and Namibia?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Afghanistan and Namibia rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Afghanistan ranks 78th and Namibia ranks 77th of 224 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.