Puerto Rico vs Somalia: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Puerto Rico
129.31 1000 ha
in 2024
Somalia
117.87 1000 ha
in 2024
Puerto Rico rank
69th
Somalia rank
71st

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

  • Puerto Rico
  • Somalia
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How they compare

Puerto Rico currently reports 129.31 1000 ha against 117.87 1000 ha in Somalia, a difference of 11.44 1000 ha.

That makes Puerto Rico's figure about 1.1 times Somalia's.

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

Puerto Rico ranks 69th and Somalia ranks 71st of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Puerto Rico Somalia Difference Ahead
2000s 128.42 1000 ha 115.28 1000 ha 13.13 1000 ha Puerto Rico
2010s 128.98 1000 ha 116.58 1000 ha 12.41 1000 ha Puerto Rico
2020s 129.42 1000 ha 117.28 1000 ha 12.15 1000 ha Puerto Rico

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Puerto Rico or Somalia?
Puerto Rico, at 129.31 1000 ha against 117.87 1000 ha in Somalia as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Puerto Rico and Somalia?
11.44 1000 ha, with Puerto Rico ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Puerto Rico and Somalia?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Puerto Rico and Somalia rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Puerto Rico ranks 69th and Somalia ranks 71st 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.