Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Asia
Asia: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 35,913 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Asia, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Asia recorded 35,913 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 4.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Asia peaked at 35,913 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 32,191 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Asia 1st out of 20 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Asia, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 32,191 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 32,432 1000 ha | +0.8% |
| 2003 | 32,603 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 32,756 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 32,880 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 33,040 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 33,186 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 33,307 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2009 | 33,494 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 33,643 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2011 | 33,830 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2012 | 33,998 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 34,175 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 34,391 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 34,592 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 34,737 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 34,896 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 35,057 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 35,272 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2020 | 35,473 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 35,624 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 35,733 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 35,853 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 35,913 1000 ha | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 32,877 1000 ha | 32,191 1000 ha | 33,494 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 34,459 1000 ha | 33,643 1000 ha | 35,272 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 35,719 1000 ha | 35,473 1000 ha | 35,913 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Asia
More environment data for Asia
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 0.4646 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -2.4 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.83 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.229 °C (2025)
- Sawlogs and veneer logs, coniferous — Production 44.07 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood, coniferous — Production 80.29 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood, non-coniferous — Production 400.22 million m3 (2024)
- Wood charcoal — Production 10.14 million t (2024)
- Other industrial roundwood, non-coniferous (production) — Production 66.09 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Asia?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Asia was 35,913 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) — area recorded in Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 35,913 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 32,191 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Asia rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Asia ranks 1st out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Asia 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 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 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.