Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Réunion
Réunion: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 11.39 1000 ha in 2022. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Réunion, 1992–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Réunion recorded 11.39 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2022. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
The figure is up 5.1% on the previous year and up 37.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Réunion peaked at 11.39 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 3.7 1000 ha, in 1992.
Réunion ranks 148th of 219 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 | 3.7 1000 ha | 3.7 1000 ha | 3.7 1000 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 5.14 1000 ha | 3.7 1000 ha | 7.25 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9.1 1000 ha | 7.67 1000 ha | 9.8 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10.68 1000 ha | 9.8 1000 ha | 11.39 1000 ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Réunion
- 145 Burundi 13.92 1000 ha compare
- 146 Gambia, The 12.08 1000 ha compare
- 147 Luxembourg 11.74 1000 ha compare
- 149 Suriname 11.38 1000 ha compare
- 150 Mauritius 10.9 1000 ha compare
- 151 Lesotho, Kingdom of 10.71 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Réunion
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.77 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.351 °C (2025)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Import quantity 1,500 t (2001)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per area of cropland 20.5 kg/ha (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per capita 0.66 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 1 g/Int$ (2005)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per capita 0.22 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Import quantity 1,200 t (2001)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per value of agricultural 0.6 g/Int$ (2005)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Réunion?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Réunion was 11.39 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 Réunion?
- The highest recorded value was 11.39 1000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Réunion?
- The lowest recorded value was 3.7 1000 ha in 1992.
- How does Réunion rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Réunion ranks 148th out of 219 countries with data for 2022.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Réunion?
- Over the last ten years it is up 37.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Réunion 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.