Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Northern America
Northern America: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 15,944 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Northern America, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Northern America is 15,944 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.5% on the previous year and up 4.2% over five years.
Northern America ranks 6th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Northern America, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15,301 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 15,371 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 15,772 1000 ha | +2.6% |
| 2018 | 15,861 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 15,944 1000 ha | +0.5% |
Countries ranked near Northern America
More environment data for Northern America
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -2.23 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -3.25 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.466 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.49 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 43.74 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 92.54 million t (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 40.32 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 11.92 g/Int$ (2024)
- Country area — Area 2.59 million 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Northern America?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Northern America was 15,944 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 Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 15,944 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,301 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Northern America rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Northern America ranks 6th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Northern America 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.