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 4th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Americas, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23,699 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 23,794 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 24,220 1000 ha | +1.8% |
| 2018 | 24,339 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 24,443 1000 ha | +0.4% |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 1 China 25,312 1000 ha compare
- 2 China, mainland 24,878 1000 ha compare
- 2 Viet Nam 1,448 1000 ha compare
- 3 India 6,736 1000 ha compare
- 3 Türkiye 1,237 1000 ha compare
- 4 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,169 1000 ha compare
- 4 Russian Federation 5,415 1000 ha compare
- 5 Japan 3,912 1000 ha compare
- 6 Indonesia 3,160 1000 ha compare
- 6 United Republic of Tanzania 547.08 1000 ha compare
- 7 Brazil 3,075 1000 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 402.58 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Americas
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.95 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.303 °C (2025)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Annual growth US$ 2.72 % (2024)
- Wood fuel, coniferous — Production 78.58 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 263.00 million m3 (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 1.73 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$, 2015 525,862 million USD (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 1.74 % (2024)
- Wood fuel — Production 341.57 million m3 (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 4th out of 26 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.