Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in European Union (27)
European Union (27): Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 16,226 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in European Union (27), 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
European Union (27) recorded 16,226 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.0% over five years.
European Union (27) ranks 5th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in European Union (27), year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16,066 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 16,104 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 16,141 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 16,190 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 16,226 1000 ha | +0.2% |
Countries ranked near European Union (27)
More environment data for European Union (27)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.429 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.31 °C (2025)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 5.35 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per capita 4.18 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per value of agricultural 5.46 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Import quantity 3.99 million t (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Agricultural Use 2.41 million t (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 6.99 g/Int$ (2024)
- Land area — Area 398,812 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in European Union (27)?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in European Union (27) was 16,226 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 European Union (27)?
- The highest recorded value was 16,226 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in European Union (27)?
- The lowest recorded value was 16,066 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does European Union (27) rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- European Union (27) ranks 5th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this European Union (27) 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.