Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Canada
Canada: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,099 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Canada, 2001–2024
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 Canada is 1,099 1000 ha, measured 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 2.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Canada peaked at 1,099 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,040 1000 ha, in 2001.
Canada ranks 18th of 240 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,050 1000 ha | 1,040 1000 ha | 1,059 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 1,076 1000 ha | 1,062 1000 ha | 1,088 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,094 1000 ha | 1,090 1000 ha | 1,099 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Canada
More environment data for Canada
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 3.19 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 1,218 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 108,496 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 2.11 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 32.68 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 18,560 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 0.3 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 172 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 67.02 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 38,064 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Canada?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Canada was 1,099 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 Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 1,099 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,040 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Canada rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Canada ranks 18th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Canada?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Canada 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.