Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Western Sahara
Western Sahara: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 2.64 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Western Sahara, 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 Western Sahara is 2.64 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.3% on the previous year and up 23.9% over five years.
Western Sahara ranks 172nd of 195 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Countries ranked near Western Sahara
- 169 Cayman Islands 3.51 1000 ha compare
- 170 Mauritius 3.4 1000 ha compare
- 171 Grenada 2.66 1000 ha compare
- 172 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2.64 1000 ha compare
- 174 Antigua and Barbuda 2.25 1000 ha compare
- 174 Isle of Man 2.25 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Western Sahara
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.503 °C (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -21.2 Percentage change (2025)
- Temperature change 1.89 °C (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -62.29 Percentage change (2025)
- Exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -52.95 Percentage change (2024)
- Cropland — Area 4 1000 ha (2024)
- Pesticides (total) — Import value 62.35 1000 USD (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 18.81 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 18.8 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Western Sahara?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Western Sahara was 2.64 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 Western Sahara?
- The highest recorded value was 2.64 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Western Sahara?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.13 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Western Sahara rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Western Sahara ranks 172nd out of 195 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Western Sahara 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.