Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Polynesia
Polynesia: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1.35 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Polynesia, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2022, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Polynesia stood at 1.35 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of up 22.7% on the previous year and up 101.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Polynesia peaked at 1.35 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.67 1000 ha, in 1992.
Polynesia ranks 19th of 20 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Polynesia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 0.67 1000 ha | — |
| 1993 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.67 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 1.1 1000 ha | +64.2% |
| 2022 | 1.35 1000 ha | +22.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.67 1000 ha | 0.67 1000 ha | 0.67 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 0.67 1000 ha | 0.67 1000 ha | 0.67 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.67 1000 ha | 0.67 1000 ha | 0.67 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.04 1000 ha | 0.67 1000 ha | 1.35 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Polynesia
- 16 Australia 960.29 1000 ha compare
- 16 Micronesia 3.76 1000 ha compare
- 17 Micronesia (Federated States of) 3.4 1000 ha compare
- 17 South Africa 783.83 1000 ha compare
- 18 Nigeria 743.44 1000 ha compare
- 19 Romania 668.25 1000 ha compare
- 20 Spain 632.48 1000 ha compare
- 20 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.04 1000 ha compare
- 21 Poland 598.94 1000 ha compare
- 22 Argentina 587.46 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Polynesia
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -1.12 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -1.29 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.211 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 0.894 °C (2025)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.17 ha/cap (2024)
- Land area — Area 794.6 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 14.8 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 89.76 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 117.57 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Polynesia?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Polynesia was 1.35 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 Polynesia?
- The highest recorded value was 1.35 1000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Polynesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.67 1000 ha in 1992.
- How does Polynesia rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Polynesia ranks 19th out of 20 countries with data for 2022.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Polynesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 101.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Polynesia 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.