Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Switzerland
Switzerland: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 228.8 1000 ha in 2019. β¬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Switzerland, 2015β2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2019, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Switzerland stood at 228.8 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 0.8% over five years.
That places Switzerland 60th out of 195 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
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- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.458 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.33 Β°C (2025)
- Recovered paper β Production 1.13 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish β Production 1.20 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import value 27,353 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import quantity 4,008 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Export value 351,039 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Export quantity 394,174 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Import value 339,356 1000 USD (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Switzerland?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Switzerland was 228.8 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) β area recorded in Switzerland?
- The highest recorded value was 228.8 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in Switzerland?
- The lowest recorded value was 226.97 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Switzerland rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- Switzerland ranks 60th out of 195 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Switzerland 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) β 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 UniversitΓ© 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.