Asia vs Japan: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time
- Asia
- Japan
How they compare
Asia currently reports 35,913 1000 ha against 3,409 1000 ha in Japan, a difference of 32,504 1000 ha.
That makes Asia's figure about 10.5 times Japan's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Asia has been ahead every year.
Asia ranks 1st and Japan ranks 5th of 20 regions.
Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Asia | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 32,877 1000 ha | 3,398 1000 ha | 29,479 1000 ha | Asia |
| 2010s | 34,459 1000 ha | 3,405 1000 ha | 31,054 1000 ha | Asia |
| 2020s | 35,719 1000 ha | 3,410 1000 ha | 32,309 1000 ha | Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Asia or Japan?
- Asia, at 35,913 1000 ha against 3,409 1000 ha in Japan as of 2024.
- What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Asia and Japan?
- 32,504 1000 ha, with Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and Japan?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Asia and Japan rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Asia ranks 1st and Japan ranks 5th of 20 regions.
- 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
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.