Middle Africa vs Spain: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Middle Africa
670.95 1000 ha
in 2024
Spain
668.72 1000 ha
in 2024
Middle Africa rank
4th
Spain rank
23rd

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

  • Middle Africa
  • Spain
0200400600200120122024

How they compare

Middle Africa currently reports 670.95 1000 ha against 668.72 1000 ha in Spain, a difference of 2.23 1000 ha.

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

Middle Africa ranks 4th and Spain ranks 23rd of 20 regions.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Middle Africa Spain Difference Ahead
2000s 615.55 1000 ha 654.42 1000 ha 38.88 1000 ha Spain
2010s 641.63 1000 ha 664.73 1000 ha 23.1 1000 ha Spain
2020s 663.94 1000 ha 667.58 1000 ha 3.64 1000 ha Spain

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Middle Africa or Spain?
Middle Africa, at 670.95 1000 ha against 668.72 1000 ha in Spain as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Middle Africa and Spain?
2.23 1000 ha, with Middle Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Middle Africa and Spain?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Middle Africa and Spain rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Middle Africa ranks 4th and Spain ranks 23rd 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

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.