Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Oceania
Oceania: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 1,211 1000 ha in 2022. β² Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Oceania, 1992β2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2022, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Oceania stood at 1,211 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.6% on the previous year and up 8.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Oceania peaked at 1,211 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 750.5 1000 ha, in 1992.
Oceania ranks 13th of 44 regions on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 816.61 1000 ha | 750.5 1000 ha | 880.95 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 1,023 1000 ha | 902.32 1000 ha | 1,092 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,134 1000 ha | 1,101 1000 ha | 1,176 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,194 1000 ha | 1,178 1000 ha | 1,211 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Oceania
More environment data for Oceania
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.36 Β°C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.316 Β°C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish β Production 5.00 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper β Production 2.98 million t (2024)
- Agricultural land β Share in Land area 44.22 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) β Use per area of cropland 16.32 kg/ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) β Use per capita 12.04 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) β Use per value of agricultural production 7.42 g/Int$ (2024)
- Inland waters β Area 6,408 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Oceania?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Oceania was 1,211 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 Oceania?
- The highest recorded value was 1,211 1000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in Oceania?
- The lowest recorded value was 750.5 1000 ha in 1992.
- How does Oceania rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- Oceania ranks 13th out of 44 regions with data for 2022.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area rising or falling in Oceania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Oceania 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.