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 213 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
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More environment data for Canada
- Standard Deviation 0.642 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.96 °C (2025)
- Sawlogs and veneer logs — Production 99.47 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood, non-coniferous — Production 24.05 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export value 419,984 1000 USD (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export quantity 3.25 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Import value 292,198 1000 USD (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Import quantity 2.89 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Production 114.88 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 474,136 m3 (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 213 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.