Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Malawi
Malawi: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 194.47 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Malawi, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2019, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Malawi stood at 194.47 1000 ha. 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 0.8% over five years.
That places Malawi 65th out of 197 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Malawi, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 192.88 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 193.41 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 193.85 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 194.08 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 194.47 1000 ha | +0.2% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 194.47 1000 ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 52 1000 ha, 3.7× the median. (22 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 194.47 1000 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 52 1000 ha, 3.7× the median. (44 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Malawi
More environment data for Malawi
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -0.9153 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -0.8098 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.254 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.07 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 3.65 % 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 5.3 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Malawi?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Malawi was 194.47 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 Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 194.47 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 192.88 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Malawi rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Malawi ranks 65th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Malawi 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.