Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in France
France: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 1,394 1000 ha in 2022. β² Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in France, 1992β2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
France recorded 1,394 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.1% on the previous year and up 7.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in France peaked at 1,394 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 655.79 1000 ha, in 1992.
France ranks 10th of 219 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 715.31 1000 ha | 655.79 1000 ha | 781 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 1,114 1000 ha | 802.64 1000 ha | 1,271 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,325 1000 ha | 1,280 1000 ha | 1,356 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,376 1000 ha | 1,356 1000 ha | 1,394 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near France
More environment data for France
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.427 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.31 Β°C (2025)
- Recovered paper β Production 6.40 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish β Production 7.87 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import value 97,624 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import quantity 33,621 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Export value 2.79 million 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Export quantity 2.58 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Import value 2.62 million 1000 USD (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in France?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in France was 1,394 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) β area recorded in France?
- The highest recorded value was 1,394 1000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in France?
- The lowest recorded value was 655.79 1000 ha in 1992.
- How does France rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- France ranks 10th out of 219 countries with data for 2022.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area rising or falling in France?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this France 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) β 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 UniversitΓ© 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.