Congo vs Sri Lanka: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time
- Congo
- Sri Lanka
How they compare
Sri Lanka currently reports 58.95 1000 ha against 54 1000 ha in Congo, a difference of 4.95 1000 ha.
That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.1 times Congo's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Sri Lanka has been ahead every year.
Congo ranks 96th and Sri Lanka ranks 95th of 218 countries.
Sri Lanka has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Congo | Sri Lanka | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 49.2 1000 ha | 52.16 1000 ha | 2.96 1000 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 2010s | 51.21 1000 ha | 55.8 1000 ha | 4.59 1000 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 2020s | 53.53 1000 ha | 58.74 1000 ha | 5.21 1000 ha | Sri Lanka |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Congo or Sri Lanka?
- Sri Lanka, at 58.95 1000 ha against 54 1000 ha in Congo as of 2024.
- What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Congo and Sri Lanka?
- 4.95 1000 ha, with Sri Lanka ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Congo and Sri Lanka?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Congo and Sri Lanka rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Congo ranks 96th and Sri Lanka ranks 95th of 218 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
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.