Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Africa
Africa: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 10,300 1000 ha in 2019. β¬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Africa, 2015β2019
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) β area in Africa is 10,300 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 2.3% over five years.
Africa ranks 5th of 39 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Countries ranked near Africa
More environment data for Africa
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.32 Β°C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.213 Β°C (2025)
- Other industrial roundwood β Production 27.50 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood β Export value 652,409 1000 USD (2024)
- Industrial roundwood, non-coniferous β Production 66.41 million m3 (2024)
- Sawlogs and veneer logs β Production 39.12 million m3 (2024)
- Wood charcoal β Production 38.75 million t (2024)
- Other industrial roundwood, non-coniferous (production) β Production 26.92 million m3 (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) β Annual growth US$ -1.32 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Africa?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Africa was 10,300 1000 ha in 2019, 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 Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 10,300 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,068 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Africa rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- Africa ranks 5th out of 39 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Africa 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 CGLS. 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.