China vs India: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time
- China
- India
How they compare
China currently reports 12,058 1000 ha against 2,567 1000 ha in India, a difference of 9,491 1000 ha.
That makes China's figure about 4.7 times India's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, China has been ahead every year.
China ranks 1st and India ranks 4th of 224 countries.
China has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2,926 1000 ha | 654.47 1000 ha | 2,272 1000 ha | China |
| 2000s | 5,094 1000 ha | 1,139 1000 ha | 3,955 1000 ha | China |
| 2010s | 9,068 1000 ha | 1,908 1000 ha | 7,160 1000 ha | China |
| 2020s | 11,553 1000 ha | 2,385 1000 ha | 9,168 1000 ha | China |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, China or India?
- China, at 12,058 1000 ha against 2,567 1000 ha in India as of 2022.
- What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between China and India?
- 9,491 1000 ha, with China ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and India?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do China and India rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- China ranks 1st 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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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.