Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Greenland
Greenland: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 0.07 1000 ha in 2022. β² Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Greenland, 1992β2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Greenland recorded 0.07 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 unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Greenland peaked at 0.07 1000 ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 0 1000 ha, in 2018.
That places Greenland 200th out of 219 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 | 0.0575 1000 ha | 0.05 1000 ha | 0.06 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 0.07 1000 ha | 0.07 1000 ha | 0.07 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.063 1000 ha | 0 1000 ha | 0.07 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.07 1000 ha | 0.07 1000 ha | 0.07 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Greenland
- 197 Seychelles 0.18 1000 ha compare
- 198 St. Pierre and Miquelon 0.16 1000 ha compare
- 199 Monaco 0.1 1000 ha compare
- 200 Guam 0.07 1000 ha compare
- 202 Tonga 0.06 1000 ha compare
- 203 Kiribati 0.04 1000 ha compare
- 203 Marshall Islands 0.04 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Greenland
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.605 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.17 Β°C (2025)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) β Annual growth 2.61 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) β Share of GDP US$ 24.29 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) β Annual growth 5.11 % (2024)
- Agricultural land β Share in Land area 0.59 % (2024)
- Value Added Deflator (Agriculture, forestry and fishery) β Value 81.98 SLC (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) β Share of GDP 24.29 % (2024)
- Roundwood β Export quantity 0 m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Greenland?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Greenland was 0.07 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 Greenland?
- The highest recorded value was 0.07 1000 ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in Greenland?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 1000 ha in 2018.
- How does Greenland rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- Greenland ranks 200th out of 219 countries with data for 2022.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area rising or falling in Greenland?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greenland 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.