Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Australia
Australia: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,237 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Australia, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Australia recorded 1,237 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 1.2% over five years.
That places Australia 20th out of 197 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Australia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,222 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 1,225 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 1,228 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,232 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 1,237 1000 ha | +0.4% |
Australia compared with similar countries
- Australia's 1,237 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 66.64 1000 ha, 18.6× the median. (67 countries reporting)
- Australia's 1,237 1000 ha is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 171.26 1000 ha, 7.2× the median. (19 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Australia
More environment data for Australia
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -4.75 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -5.98 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.345 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.4 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate -1.03 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 0.6708 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate 0.0861 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Australia?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Australia was 1,237 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?
- The highest recorded value was 1,237 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,222 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Australia rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Australia ranks 20th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Australia 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.