Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Barbados
Barbados: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 10.14 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Barbados, 2015–2019
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) — area in Barbados is 10.14 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.1% over five years.
Barbados ranks 155th of 197 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Barbados, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10.03 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 10.08 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 10.12 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 10.13 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 10.14 1000 ha | +0.1% |
Barbados compared with similar countries
- Barbados's 10.14 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 66.64 1000 ha, 15% of the median. (67 countries reporting)
- Barbados's 10.14 1000 ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 48.4 1000 ha, 21% of the median. (37 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Barbados
More environment data for Barbados
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -8.41 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -8.41 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 111.15 % change on previous year (2023)
- Standard Deviation 0.587 °C (2023)
- Temperature change 1.03 °C (2023)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 2.61 % 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 -0.3571 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Barbados?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Barbados was 10.14 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 Barbados?
- The highest recorded value was 10.14 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Barbados?
- The lowest recorded value was 10.03 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Barbados rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Barbados ranks 155th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Barbados 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.