Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Americas
Americas: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 24,443 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Americas, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2019, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Americas stood at 24,443 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 3.1% over five years.
Americas ranks 5th of 28 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Countries ranked near Americas
More environment data for Americas
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per capita 12.55 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 27.37 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Import quantity 9.07 million t (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Agricultural Use 13.16 million t (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per area of cropland 34.89 kg/ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Import quantity 19.01 million t (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per area of cropland 41.48 kg/ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Agricultural Use 15.65 million t (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per capita 25.42 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per value of agricultural 13.51 g/Int$ (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Americas?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Americas was 24,443 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) — area recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 24,443 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 23,699 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Americas rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Americas ranks 5th out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Americas 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 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 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.