Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 10,003 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Southern Asia, 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 Asia is 10,003 1000 ha, measured 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 1.2% over five years.
Southern Asia ranks 10th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Southern Asia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9,881 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 9,915 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 9,942 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 9,981 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 10,003 1000 ha | +0.2% |
Countries ranked near Southern Asia
More environment data for Southern Asia
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 6.69 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 0.4009 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.274 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.44 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 15.39 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 8.45 million t (2024)
- Cropland — Area 238,515 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 1.52 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 4.25 g/Int$ (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Southern Asia?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Southern Asia was 10,003 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 Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 10,003 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,881 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Southern Asia rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Southern Asia ranks 10th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Southern Asia 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.