Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Germany
Germany: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 2,915 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Germany, 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 Germany is 2,915 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 1.1% over five years.
Germany ranks 8th of 213 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Countries ranked near Germany
More environment data for Germany
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 6.68 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 791.8 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 792 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 13.49 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 28.45 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 4,714 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 1.2 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 198 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 70.35 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 11,656 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Germany?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Germany was 2,915 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 Germany?
- The highest recorded value was 2,915 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Germany?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,882 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Germany rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Germany ranks 8th out of 213 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Germany 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.