Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,411 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Australia and New Zealand, 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 Australia and New Zealand stood at 1,411 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 1.2% over five years.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 17th of 197 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,395 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 1,399 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 1,402 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,406 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 1,411 1000 ha | +0.3% |
Countries ranked near Australia and New Zealand
More environment data for Australia and New Zealand
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -5.87 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -4.39 Percentage change (2025)
- Temperature change 1.39 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.335 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 4.99 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 2.98 million t (2024)
- Cropland — Area 32,246 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 16.72 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 7.63 g/Int$ (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Australia and New Zealand?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Australia and New Zealand was 1,411 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 Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 1,411 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,395 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 17th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand 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.