Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” Area in Iraq

Iraq: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” Area was 381.88 1000 ha in 2019. β–¬ Flat

Latest (2019)
381.88 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.2%
World rank
49th
of 213 countries
All-time high
381.88 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
378.42 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” Area in Iraq, 2015–2019

01002003004002015201720192015: 378.4 1000 ha2016: 379.4 1000 ha2017: 380.3 1000 ha2018: 381.1 1000 ha2019: 381.9 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Iraq recorded 381.88 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” 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 0.9% over five years.

That places Iraq 49th out of 213 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.

Countries ranked near Iraq

  1. 46 Belarus 411.88 1000 ha compare
  2. 47 Greece 404.76 1000 ha compare
  3. 48 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 402.58 1000 ha compare
  4. 50 Mozambique 355.18 1000 ha compare
  5. 51 Zambia 350.09 1000 ha compare
  6. 52 Sweden 347.81 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 241 places β†’

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Frequently asked questions

What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area in Iraq?
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area in Iraq was 381.88 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) β€” area recorded in Iraq?
The highest recorded value was 381.88 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area recorded in Iraq?
The lowest recorded value was 378.42 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Iraq rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area?
Iraq ranks 49th out of 213 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Iraq 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) β€” Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
241 places, 1,205 data points, 2015–2019
Last refreshed

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 UniversitΓ© 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.