Romania vs Southern Africa: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Romania
668.25 1000 ha
in 2022
Southern Africa
935.93 1000 ha
in 2022
Romania rank
19th
Southern Africa rank
22nd

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

  • Romania
  • Southern Africa
2004006008001.0k199220072022

How they compare

Southern Africa currently reports 935.93 1000 ha against 668.25 1000 ha in Romania, a difference of 267.68 1000 ha.

That makes Southern Africa's figure about 1.4 times Romania's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Southern Africa ahead.

Romania ranks 19th and Southern Africa ranks 22nd of 224 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Romania averaged higher in 1 and Southern Africa in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade Romania Southern Africa Difference Ahead
1990s 289.27 1000 ha 338.24 1000 ha 48.97 1000 ha Southern Africa
2000s 488.56 1000 ha 459.95 1000 ha 28.6 1000 ha Romania
2010s 628.22 1000 ha 647.7 1000 ha 19.47 1000 ha Southern Africa
2020s 663.7 1000 ha 915.95 1000 ha 252.24 1000 ha Southern Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Romania or Southern Africa?
Southern Africa, at 935.93 1000 ha against 668.25 1000 ha in Romania as of 2022.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Romania and Southern Africa?
267.68 1000 ha, with Southern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Romania and Southern Africa?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Romania and Southern Africa rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Romania ranks 19th and Southern Africa ranks 22nd 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

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.