Brazil vs India: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Brazil
2,207 1000 ha
in 2022
India
2,567 1000 ha
in 2022
Brazil rank
5th
India rank
4th

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

  • Brazil
  • India
5001.0k1.5k2.0k2.5k199220072022

How they compare

India currently reports 2,567 1000 ha against 2,207 1000 ha in Brazil, a difference of 360 1000 ha.

That makes India's figure about 1.2 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 5th and India ranks 4th of 224 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Brazil averaged higher in 2 and India in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Brazil India Difference Ahead
1990s 1,096 1000 ha 654.47 1000 ha 441.92 1000 ha Brazil
2000s 1,480 1000 ha 1,139 1000 ha 340.66 1000 ha Brazil
2010s 1,878 1000 ha 1,908 1000 ha 29.73 1000 ha India
2020s 2,112 1000 ha 2,385 1000 ha 273.1 1000 ha India

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Brazil or India?
India, at 2,567 1000 ha against 2,207 1000 ha in Brazil as of 2022.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Brazil and India?
360 1000 ha, with India ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and India?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Brazil and India rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Brazil ranks 5th and India ranks 4th 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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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.