India vs Japan: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time
- India
- Japan
How they compare
India currently reports 3,952 1000 ha against 3,409 1000 ha in Japan, a difference of 543 1000 ha.
That makes India's figure about 1.2 times Japan's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, India has been ahead every year.
India ranks 4th and Japan ranks 5th of 218 countries.
India has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3,785 1000 ha | 3,398 1000 ha | 387.73 1000 ha | India |
| 2010s | 3,851 1000 ha | 3,405 1000 ha | 446.21 1000 ha | India |
| 2020s | 3,926 1000 ha | 3,410 1000 ha | 516.48 1000 ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, India or Japan?
- India, at 3,952 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 India and Japan?
- 543 1000 ha, with India ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Japan?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do India and Japan rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- India ranks 4th and Japan ranks 5th 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.