Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 109.86 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
109.86 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.1%
World rank
91st
of 195 countries
All-time high
109.86 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
107.97 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Puerto Rico, 2015–2019

02550751002015201720192015: 108 1000 ha2016: 108.3 1000 ha2017: 109.7 1000 ha2018: 109.8 1000 ha2019: 109.9 1000 ha

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

Analysis

Puerto Rico recorded 109.86 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 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.8% over five years.

Puerto Rico ranks 91st of 195 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Puerto Rico

  1. 88 Ireland 125.3 1000 ha compare
  2. 89 Georgia 123.82 1000 ha compare
  3. 90 Guatemala 115.31 1000 ha compare
  4. 92 Afghanistan 108.5 1000 ha compare
  5. 93 Dominican Republic 107.34 1000 ha compare
  6. 94 Lebanon 104.49 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Puerto Rico?
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Puerto Rico was 109.86 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 Puerto Rico?
The highest recorded value was 109.86 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Puerto Rico?
The lowest recorded value was 107.97 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Puerto Rico rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Puerto Rico ranks 91st out of 195 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Puerto Rico 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
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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.