United Arab Emirates vs Zimbabwe: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

United Arab Emirates
67.73 1000 ha
in 2024
Zimbabwe
66.06 1000 ha
in 2024
United Arab Emirates rank
89th
Zimbabwe rank
90th

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

  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zimbabwe
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How they compare

United Arab Emirates currently reports 67.73 1000 ha against 66.06 1000 ha in Zimbabwe, a difference of 1.67 1000 ha.

Across all 24 years both countries report, United Arab Emirates has been ahead every year.

United Arab Emirates ranks 89th and Zimbabwe ranks 90th of 223 countries.

United Arab Emirates has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade United Arab Emirates Zimbabwe Difference Ahead
2000s 61.8 1000 ha 60.03 1000 ha 1.77 1000 ha United Arab Emirates
2010s 65.74 1000 ha 61.77 1000 ha 3.97 1000 ha United Arab Emirates
2020s 67.22 1000 ha 64.3 1000 ha 2.92 1000 ha United Arab Emirates

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, United Arab Emirates or Zimbabwe?
United Arab Emirates, at 67.73 1000 ha against 66.06 1000 ha in Zimbabwe as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe?
1.67 1000 ha, with United Arab Emirates ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
United Arab Emirates ranks 89th and Zimbabwe ranks 90th 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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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.