Afghanistan vs Israel: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Afghanistan
119.96 1000 ha
in 2024
Israel
129.42 1000 ha
in 2024
Afghanistan rank
70th
Israel rank
68th

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

  • Afghanistan
  • Israel
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How they compare

Israel currently reports 129.42 1000 ha against 119.96 1000 ha in Afghanistan, a difference of 9.46 1000 ha.

That makes Israel's figure about 1.1 times Afghanistan's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Israel has been ahead every year.

Afghanistan ranks 70th and Israel ranks 68th of 223 countries.

Israel has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Afghanistan Israel Difference Ahead
2000s 118.7 1000 ha 123.93 1000 ha 5.22 1000 ha Israel
2010s 119.3 1000 ha 125.51 1000 ha 6.21 1000 ha Israel
2020s 119.82 1000 ha 128.46 1000 ha 8.64 1000 ha Israel

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Afghanistan or Israel?
Israel, at 129.42 1000 ha against 119.96 1000 ha in Afghanistan as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Afghanistan and Israel?
9.46 1000 ha, with Israel ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Afghanistan and Israel?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Afghanistan and Israel rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Afghanistan ranks 70th and Israel ranks 68th of 223 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 MODIS. 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 MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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.