Ecuador vs Ghana: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Ecuador
296.11 1000 ha
in 2024
Ghana
314.1 1000 ha
in 2024
Ecuador rank
45th
Ghana rank
44th

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

  • Ecuador
  • Ghana
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How they compare

Ghana currently reports 314.1 1000 ha against 296.11 1000 ha in Ecuador, a difference of 17.99 1000 ha.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.1 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 45th and Ghana ranks 44th of 218 countries.

Across the 3 decades both report, Ecuador averaged higher in 2 and Ghana in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Ecuador Ghana Difference Ahead
2000s 284.99 1000 ha 264.14 1000 ha 20.85 1000 ha Ecuador
2010s 290.66 1000 ha 284.42 1000 ha 6.24 1000 ha Ecuador
2020s 294.86 1000 ha 307.03 1000 ha 12.17 1000 ha Ghana

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Ecuador or Ghana?
Ghana, at 314.1 1000 ha against 296.11 1000 ha in Ecuador as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Ecuador and Ghana?
17.99 1000 ha, with Ghana ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Ecuador and Ghana?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Ecuador and Ghana rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Ecuador ranks 45th and Ghana ranks 44th 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

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.