France vs Japan: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time
- France
- Japan
How they compare
Japan currently reports 1,881 1000 ha against 1,394 1000 ha in France, a difference of 487 1000 ha.
That makes Japan's figure about 1.3 times France's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Japan ahead.
France ranks 10th and Japan ranks 7th of 224 countries.
Japan has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | France | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 715.31 1000 ha | 991.16 1000 ha | 275.85 1000 ha | Japan |
| 2000s | 1,114 1000 ha | 1,184 1000 ha | 69.71 1000 ha | Japan |
| 2010s | 1,325 1000 ha | 1,733 1000 ha | 408.08 1000 ha | Japan |
| 2020s | 1,376 1000 ha | 1,858 1000 ha | 481.96 1000 ha | Japan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, France or Japan?
- Japan, at 1,881 1000 ha against 1,394 1000 ha in France as of 2022.
- What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between France and Japan?
- 487 1000 ha, with Japan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for France and Japan?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do France and Japan rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- France ranks 10th and Japan ranks 7th 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.