Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Dominica
Dominica: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 0.38 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Dominica, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Dominica is 0.38 1000 ha, measured in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
The figure is up 18.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Dominica peaked at 0.38 1000 ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 0.23 1000 ha, in 1992.
That places Dominica 189th out of 224 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.2375 1000 ha | 0.23 1000 ha | 0.25 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 0.274 1000 ha | 0.27 1000 ha | 0.28 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.346 1000 ha | 0.28 1000 ha | 0.38 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.38 1000 ha | 0.38 1000 ha | 0.38 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Dominica
- 186 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.68 1000 ha compare
- 187 San Marino 0.47 1000 ha compare
- 188 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.41 1000 ha compare
- 189 Gibraltar 0.38 1000 ha compare
- 191 Andorra 0.37 1000 ha compare
- 191 Vanuatu 0.37 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Dominica
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 3.05 Percentage change (2025)
- Temperature change 1.2 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.258 °C (2025)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Agricultural Use 141 t (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per value of agricultural 2.7 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Import quantity 141 t (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 2.13 kg/cap (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 0.89 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 2.54 g/Int$ (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Dominica?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Dominica was 0.38 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Dominica?
- The highest recorded value was 0.38 1000 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Dominica?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.23 1000 ha in 1992.
- How does Dominica rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Dominica ranks 189th out of 224 countries with data for 2022.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Dominica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Dominica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.