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

Nigeria
898.22 1000 ha
in 2024
Pakistan
716.04 1000 ha
in 2024
Nigeria rank
20th
Pakistan rank
22nd

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

  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
0200400600800200120122024

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 898.22 1000 ha against 716.04 1000 ha in Pakistan, a difference of 182.18 1000 ha.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.3 times Pakistan's.

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

Nigeria ranks 20th and Pakistan ranks 22nd of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Nigeria Pakistan Difference Ahead
2000s 724.14 1000 ha 700.77 1000 ha 23.37 1000 ha Nigeria
2010s 807.24 1000 ha 705.68 1000 ha 101.56 1000 ha Nigeria
2020s 881.11 1000 ha 713.89 1000 ha 167.23 1000 ha Nigeria

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Nigeria or Pakistan?
Nigeria, at 898.22 1000 ha against 716.04 1000 ha in Pakistan as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Nigeria and Pakistan?
182.18 1000 ha, with Nigeria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Nigeria and Pakistan?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Nigeria and Pakistan rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Nigeria ranks 20th and Pakistan ranks 22nd 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
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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.