Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Qatar
Qatar: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 48.96 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Qatar, 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 Qatar is 48.96 1000 ha, measured in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 8.5% on the previous year and up 37.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Qatar peaked at 48.96 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 28.5 1000 ha, in 1992.
Qatar ranks 114th of 241 countries 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 | 28.55 1000 ha | 28.5 1000 ha | 28.58 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 31.42 1000 ha | 28.59 1000 ha | 34.08 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 37.3 1000 ha | 34.57 1000 ha | 43.34 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 46 1000 ha | 43.91 1000 ha | 48.96 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Qatar
More environment data for Qatar
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 100 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 25 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 4.35 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 67.57 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 50 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 4.14 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 3.07 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 28.29 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 20.93 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.01 ha/cap (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Qatar?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Qatar was 48.96 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 Qatar?
- The highest recorded value was 48.96 1000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Qatar?
- The lowest recorded value was 28.5 1000 ha in 1992.
- How does Qatar rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Qatar ranks 114th out of 241 countries with data for 2022.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Qatar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 37.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Qatar 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.