Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Canada
Canada: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,574 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Canada, 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 Canada is 1,574 1000 ha, measured in 2019. 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 27.8% over five years.
That places Canada 15th out of 197 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Canada, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,231 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 1,236 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 1,564 1000 ha | +26.5% |
| 2018 | 1,568 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,574 1000 ha | +0.4% |
Canada compared with similar countries
- Canada's 1,574 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 66.64 1000 ha, 23.6× the median. (67 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Canada
- 12 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 112.25 1000 ha compare
- 12 Ukraine 2,039 1000 ha compare
- 13 Lao People's Democratic Republic 97.4 1000 ha compare
- 13 Nigeria 1,955 1000 ha compare
- 14 Mexico 1,950 1000 ha compare
- 14 Melanesia 44.71 1000 ha compare
- 16 Timor-Leste 4.23 1000 ha compare
- 16 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,432 1000 ha compare
- 17 Australia and New Zealand 1,411 1000 ha compare
- 17 Micronesia 0.31 1000 ha compare
- 18 Poland 1,387 1000 ha compare
- 18 Polynesia 0.05 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Canada
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -2.52 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -6.76 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.642 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.96 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 2.9 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 1.7 % 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 -0.3398 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Canada?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Canada was 1,574 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 Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 1,574 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,231 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Canada rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Canada ranks 15th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Canada 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.