Nicaragua vs Papua New Guinea: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Nicaragua
22.51 1000 ha
in 2022
Papua New Guinea
23.93 1000 ha
in 2022
Nicaragua rank
134th
Papua New Guinea rank
131st

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

  • Nicaragua
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 23.93 1000 ha against 22.51 1000 ha in Nicaragua, a difference of 1.42 1000 ha.

That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Papua New Guinea has been ahead every year.

Nicaragua ranks 134th and Papua New Guinea ranks 131st of 224 countries.

Papua New Guinea has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Nicaragua Papua New Guinea Difference Ahead
1990s 13.76 1000 ha 16.67 1000 ha 2.91 1000 ha Papua New Guinea
2000s 15.78 1000 ha 20.08 1000 ha 4.31 1000 ha Papua New Guinea
2010s 19.72 1000 ha 21.35 1000 ha 1.63 1000 ha Papua New Guinea
2020s 21.84 1000 ha 23.48 1000 ha 1.64 1000 ha Papua New Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Nicaragua or Papua New Guinea?
Papua New Guinea, at 23.93 1000 ha against 22.51 1000 ha in Nicaragua as of 2022.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Nicaragua and Papua New Guinea?
1.42 1000 ha, with Papua New Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Nicaragua and Papua New Guinea?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Nicaragua and Papua New Guinea rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Nicaragua ranks 134th and Papua New Guinea ranks 131st 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.