Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in United States of America
United States of America: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 14,369 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in United States of America, 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 United States of America is 14,369 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 2.1% over five years.
That places United States of America 7th out of 26 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in United States of America, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14,068 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 14,133 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 14,207 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 14,292 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 14,369 1000 ha | +0.5% |
Countries ranked near United States of America
- 4 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,169 1000 ha compare
- 4 Russian Federation 5,415 1000 ha compare
- 5 Japan 3,912 1000 ha compare
- 6 Indonesia 3,160 1000 ha compare
- 6 United Republic of Tanzania 547.08 1000 ha compare
- 7 Brazil 3,075 1000 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 402.58 1000 ha compare
- 8 Democratic Republic of the Congo 346.48 1000 ha compare
- 8 Germany 2,915 1000 ha compare
- 9 France 2,708 1000 ha compare
- 9 Syrian Arab Republic 309.8 1000 ha compare
- 10 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 262.17 1000 ha compare
- 10 Thailand 2,088 1000 ha compare
More environment data for United States of America
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.306 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.76 °C (2025)
- Roundwood, non-coniferous — Production, annual growth rate -5.32 % change on previous year (2024)
- Wood fuel — Production, annual growth rate 0.7801 % change on previous year (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production, annual growth rate 0.0569 % change on previous year (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Production, annual growth rate -1.97 % change on previous year (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export quantity, annual growth rate 0.9806 % change on previous year (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export value, annual growth rate 6.58 % change on previous year (2024)
- Industrial roundwood, non-coniferous — Production, annual growth rate -7.52 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in United States of America?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in United States of America was 14,369 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 States of America?
- The highest recorded value was 14,369 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in United States of America?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,068 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does United States of America rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- United States of America ranks 7th out of 26 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this United States of America 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.