Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Lesotho
Lesotho: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 14.12 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Lesotho, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Lesotho recorded 14.12 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 6.6% over five years.
Lesotho ranks 153rd of 197 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Lesotho, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13.24 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 13.48 1000 ha | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 14.06 1000 ha | +4.3% |
| 2018 | 14.11 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 14.12 1000 ha | +0.1% |
Lesotho compared with similar countries
- Lesotho's 14.12 1000 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 103.64 1000 ha, 14% of the median. (40 countries reporting)
- Lesotho's 14.12 1000 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 52 1000 ha, 27% of the median. (44 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Lesotho
More environment data for Lesotho
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.284 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 0.783 °C (2025)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual -0.521 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate -2.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Building (Energy) (Mt CO2e), annual -0.4197 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Lesotho?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Lesotho was 14.12 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 Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 14.12 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 13.24 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Lesotho rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Lesotho ranks 153rd out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Lesotho 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.