Australia vs Western Africa: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time
- Australia
- Western Africa
How they compare
Western Africa currently reports 1,626 1000 ha against 960.29 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 665.71 1000 ha.
That makes Western Africa's figure about 1.7 times Australia's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Australia ahead.
Australia ranks 16th and Western Africa ranks 17th of 224 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 2 and Western Africa in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Western Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 627.5 1000 ha | 501.45 1000 ha | 126.05 1000 ha | Australia |
| 2000s | 794.75 1000 ha | 698.92 1000 ha | 95.83 1000 ha | Australia |
| 2010s | 896.3 1000 ha | 1,053 1000 ha | 156.43 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2020s | 947.27 1000 ha | 1,512 1000 ha | 564.67 1000 ha | Western Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Australia or Western Africa?
- Western Africa, at 1,626 1000 ha against 960.29 1000 ha in Australia as of 2022.
- What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Australia and Western Africa?
- 665.71 1000 ha, with Western Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Western Africa?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Australia and Western Africa rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Australia ranks 16th and Western Africa ranks 17th 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
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.