Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 15.32 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
15.32 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.2%
World rank
151st
of 197 countries
All-time high
15.32 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
15.13 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Papua New Guinea, 2015–2019

0510152015201720192015: 15.1 1000 ha2016: 15.2 1000 ha2017: 15.2 1000 ha2018: 15.3 1000 ha2019: 15.3 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Papua New Guinea recorded 15.32 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.3% over five years.

Papua New Guinea ranks 151st of 197 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Papua New Guinea, year by year

Annual values for Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CGLS in Papua New Guinea, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 15.13 1000 ha
2016 15.19 1000 ha +0.4%
2017 15.22 1000 ha +0.2%
2018 15.29 1000 ha +0.5%
2019 15.32 1000 ha +0.2%

Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea

  1. 148 Equatorial Guinea 16.75 1000 ha compare
  2. 149 Guinea-Bissau 16.44 1000 ha compare
  3. 150 Martinique 15.77 1000 ha compare
  4. 152 Bahamas 15.21 1000 ha compare
  5. 153 Lesotho 14.12 1000 ha compare
  6. 154 Malta 10.69 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Papua New Guinea?
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Papua New Guinea was 15.32 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 Papua New Guinea?
The highest recorded value was 15.32 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Papua New Guinea?
The lowest recorded value was 15.13 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Papua New Guinea rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Papua New Guinea ranks 151st out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Papua New Guinea 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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Indicator
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
241 places, 1,205 data points, 2015–2019
Last refreshed

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.