Mexico vs Nigeria: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Mexico
1,114 1000 ha
in 2024
Nigeria
898.22 1000 ha
in 2024
Mexico rank
17th
Nigeria rank
20th

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

  • Mexico
  • Nigeria
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How they compare

Mexico currently reports 1,114 1000 ha against 898.22 1000 ha in Nigeria, a difference of 215.78 1000 ha.

That makes Mexico's figure about 1.2 times Nigeria's.

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

Mexico ranks 17th and Nigeria ranks 20th of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Mexico Nigeria Difference Ahead
2000s 1,038 1000 ha 724.14 1000 ha 314.27 1000 ha Mexico
2010s 1,077 1000 ha 807.24 1000 ha 269.85 1000 ha Mexico
2020s 1,106 1000 ha 881.11 1000 ha 224.59 1000 ha Mexico

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Mexico or Nigeria?
Mexico, at 1,114 1000 ha against 898.22 1000 ha in Nigeria as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Mexico and Nigeria?
215.78 1000 ha, with Mexico ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Mexico and Nigeria?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Mexico and Nigeria rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Mexico ranks 17th and Nigeria ranks 20th 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.