Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 48.58 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Burkina Faso, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Burkina Faso recorded 48.58 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 0.8% on the previous year and up 4.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Burkina Faso peaked at 48.58 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 45.5 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Burkina Faso 103rd out of 223 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Burkina Faso, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 45.5 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 45.63 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 45.63 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 45.63 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 45.63 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 45.67 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 45.74 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 45.84 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 45.84 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 45.97 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 46.06 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 46.25 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2013 | 46.38 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 46.51 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 46.53 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 46.61 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 46.81 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 47.02 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 47.26 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 47.34 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 47.56 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2022 | 48 1000 ha | +0.9% |
| 2023 | 48.2 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 48.58 1000 ha | +0.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 45.68 1000 ha | 45.5 1000 ha | 45.84 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 46.54 1000 ha | 45.97 1000 ha | 47.26 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 47.94 1000 ha | 47.34 1000 ha | 48.58 1000 ha | 5 |
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More environment data for Burkina Faso
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -7.27 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -7.18 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.331 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.25 °C (2025)
- Printing and writing papers — Import quantity, annual growth rate -6.49 % change on previous year (2024)
- Printing and writing papers — Import quantity, per capita 0.0004 t per person (2024)
- Printing and writing papers — Import value, annual growth rate -3.63 % change on previous year (2024)
- Printing and writing papers — Import value, per capita 0.0002 1000 USD per person (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import quantity, annual growth rate 36.53 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Burkina Faso?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Burkina Faso was 48.58 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 Burkina Faso?
- The highest recorded value was 48.58 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The lowest recorded value was 45.5 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Burkina Faso rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Burkina Faso ranks 103rd out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Burkina Faso 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.