Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in South Africa
South Africa: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,082 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in South Africa, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
South Africa recorded 1,082 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 1.3% over five years.
That places South Africa 21st out of 197 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in South Africa, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,069 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 1,071 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,073 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,076 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 1,082 1000 ha | +0.6% |
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More environment data for South Africa
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 5.46 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 8.52 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.275 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.05 °C (2025)
- Newsprint — Import quantity, gaps filled 34,979 t (2024)
- Newsprint — Import quantity, annual growth rate 115.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Newsprint — Import value, gaps filled 21,013 1000 USD (2024)
- Newsprint — Import value, annual growth rate 78.26 % change on previous year (2024)
- Printing and writing papers — Import quantity, annual growth rate 36.55 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in South Africa?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in South Africa was 1,082 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 South Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,082 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in South Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,069 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does South Africa rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- South Africa ranks 21st out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this South Africa 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.