India vs World: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time
- India
- World
How they compare
World currently reports 64,750 1000 ha against 2,567 1000 ha in India, a difference of 62,183 1000 ha.
That makes World's figure about 25.2 times India's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, World has been ahead every year.
India ranks 4th and World ranks 1st of 219 countries.
World has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | World | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 654.47 1000 ha | 28,704 1000 ha | 28,049 1000 ha | World |
| 2000s | 1,139 1000 ha | 40,653 1000 ha | 39,514 1000 ha | World |
| 2010s | 1,908 1000 ha | 54,378 1000 ha | 52,470 1000 ha | World |
| 2020s | 2,385 1000 ha | 62,702 1000 ha | 60,317 1000 ha | World |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, India or World?
- World, at 64,750 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 India and World?
- 62,183 1000 ha, with World ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and World?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do India and World rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- India ranks 4th and World ranks 1st of 219 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.