Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 65.55 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Costa Rica, 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 Costa Rica stood at 65.55 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 1.4% over five years.
That places Costa Rica 107th out of 197 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64.63 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 64.98 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 65.13 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 65.38 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 65.55 1000 ha | +0.3% |
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More environment data for Costa Rica
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 2.9 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 2.71 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.257 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.61 °C (2025)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import 20.77 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import 0 t per person (2024)
- Exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -0.4173 Percentage change (2024)
- Exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -3.64 Percentage change (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import value -4.43 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Costa Rica?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Costa Rica was 65.55 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 Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 65.55 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 64.63 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Costa Rica rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Costa Rica ranks 107th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Costa Rica 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.