Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Antarctica
Antarctica: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 0 1000 ha in 2024. β¬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Antarctica, 2001β2024
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) β area in Antarctica is 0 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Antarctica peaked at 0 1000 ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 0 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Antarctica 201st out of 218 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0 1000 ha | 0 1000 ha | 0 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 0 1000 ha | 0 1000 ha | 0 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0 1000 ha | 0 1000 ha | 0 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Antarctica
- 200 Monaco 0.04 1000 ha compare
- 201 American Samoa 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Bermuda 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 French Polynesia 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Greenland 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Kiribati 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Marshall Islands 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Naoero 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Norfolk Island 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Palau 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Pitcairn 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Samoa 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Tonga 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 Tuvalu 0 1000 ha compare
- 201 United States Minor Outlying Islands 0 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Antarctica
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.474 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.37 Β°C (2025)
- Terrestrial barren land β Area from CCI_LC 0 1000 ha (2022)
- Permanent snow and glaciers β Area from CCI_LC 1.18 million 1000 ha (2022)
- Sparsely natural vegetated areas β Area from CCI_LC 10.16 1000 ha (2022)
- Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded 0 1000 ha (2022)
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area 0 1000 ha (2022)
- Shrub-covered areas β Area from CCI_LC 0 1000 ha (2022)
- Woody crops β Area from CCI_LC 0 1000 ha (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Antarctica?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Antarctica was 0 1000 ha in 2024, 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 Antarctica?
- The highest recorded value was 0 1000 ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in Antarctica?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Antarctica rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- Antarctica ranks 201st out of 218 countries with data for 2024.
- Where does this Antarctica 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 MODIS. 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.