Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,432 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland recorded 1,432 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 0.5% on the previous year and up 1.5% over five years.
That places United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 16th out of 197 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,411 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 1,415 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 1,419 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,425 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 1,432 1000 ha | +0.5% |
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More environment data for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.444 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.84 °C (2025)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Export quantity, gaps filled 39,669 t (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Agricultural Use, gaps filled 872,000 t (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Agricultural Use, annual growth rate 0.1148 % change on previous year (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Import quantity, gaps filled 132,472 t (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Import quantity, annual growth rate -1.48 % change on previous year (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Agricultural Use, gaps filled 116,000 t (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Agricultural Use, annual growth rate 13.73 % change on previous year (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was 1,432 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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
- The highest recorded value was 1,432 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,411 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ranks 16th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 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.