Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in New Zealand
New Zealand: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 174.41 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in New Zealand, 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 New Zealand stood at 174.41 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 0.9% over five years.
That places New Zealand 71st 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 New Zealand, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 172.83 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 173.28 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 173.72 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 174.1 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 174.41 1000 ha | +0.2% |
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- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.379 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.23 °C (2025)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in New Zealand?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in New Zealand was 174.41 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 New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 174.41 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 172.83 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does New Zealand rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- New Zealand ranks 71st out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this New Zealand 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.