Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,280 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Southern Africa, 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 Southern Africa is 1,280 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 1.3% over five years.
Southern Africa ranks 23rd of 26 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,264 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 1,267 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 1,269 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 1,273 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 1,280 1000 ha | +0.5% |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
- 20 Australia 1,237 1000 ha compare
- 21 South Africa 1,082 1000 ha compare
- 22 Pakistan 930.49 1000 ha compare
- 23 Argentina 877.16 1000 ha compare
- 24 Uzbekistan 862.04 1000 ha compare
- 25 Romania 810.34 1000 ha compare
- 26 Republic of Korea 790.4 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Southern Africa
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 4.17 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 7.61 Percentage change (2025)
- Temperature change 0.892 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.282 °C (2025)
- Wood fuel, coniferous — Production 770,000 m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export quantity 427,327 m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Import value 35,013 1000 USD (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Import quantity 161,260 m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Production 17.26 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Southern Africa?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Southern Africa was 1,280 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 Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,280 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,264 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Southern Africa rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Southern Africa ranks 23rd out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Southern 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.