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

Nigeria
898.22 1000 ha
in 2024
Poland
840.17 1000 ha
in 2024
Nigeria rank
20th
Poland rank
21st

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

  • Nigeria
  • Poland
0200400600800200120122024

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 898.22 1000 ha against 840.17 1000 ha in Poland, a difference of 58.05 1000 ha.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Poland's.

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

Nigeria ranks 20th and Poland ranks 21st of 218 countries.

Across the 3 decades both report, Nigeria averaged higher in 1 and Poland in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Nigeria Poland Difference Ahead
2000s 724.14 1000 ha 827.6 1000 ha 103.46 1000 ha Poland
2010s 807.24 1000 ha 833.35 1000 ha 26.11 1000 ha Poland
2020s 881.11 1000 ha 839.85 1000 ha 41.26 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 Poland?
Nigeria, at 898.22 1000 ha against 840.17 1000 ha in Poland as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Nigeria and Poland?
58.05 1000 ha, with Nigeria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Nigeria and Poland?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Nigeria and Poland rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Nigeria ranks 20th and Poland ranks 21st 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.