Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in World
World: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 117,725 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in World, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2019, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in World stood at 117,725 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 1.7% over five years.
That places World 1st out of 28 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Countries ranked near World
- 1 China 25,312 1000 ha compare
- 2 China, mainland 24,878 1000 ha compare
- 3 India 6,736 1000 ha compare
- 4 Russian Federation 5,415 1000 ha compare
More environment data for World
- Standard Deviation 0.208 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.88 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 241.28 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 431.35 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import value 4.18 million 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import quantity 1.50 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export value 68.53 million 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export quantity 76.62 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import value 71.11 million 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import quantity 77.03 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in World?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in World was 117,725 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 World?
- The highest recorded value was 117,725 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 115,722 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does World rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- World ranks 1st out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this World 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.