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 165th of 213 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
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More environment data for Lesotho
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 0.45 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 2.64 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 73.68 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 79.33 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 2,237 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 0.21 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 6 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 20.46 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 577 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.25 ha/cap (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 165th out of 213 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.