Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Channel Islands
Channel Islands: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1.94 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Channel Islands, 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 Channel Islands is 1.94 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 24 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Channel Islands peaked at 2.15 1000 ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 1.94 1000 ha, in 2023.
That places Channel Islands 188th out of 240 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2.09 1000 ha | 2.05 1000 ha | 2.15 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 2.03 1000 ha | 2 1000 ha | 2.07 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.96 1000 ha | 1.94 1000 ha | 2 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Channel Islands
- 185 Guam 2.14 1000 ha compare
- 186 Bhutan 2.06 1000 ha compare
- 187 Solomon Islands 2.01 1000 ha compare
- 189 Antigua and Barbuda 1.73 1000 ha compare
- 190 Cayman Islands 1.69 1000 ha compare
- 191 Saint Lucia 1.56 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Channel Islands
- Standard Deviation 0.484 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.98 °C (2025)
- Agriculture — Area 8.57 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 17.44 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 40.29 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 3.45 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 43.3 % (2024)
- Land area — Area 19.8 1000 ha (2024)
- Aquaculture production 1,190 metric tons (2022)
- Country area — Area 19.8 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Channel Islands?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Channel Islands was 1.94 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 Channel Islands?
- The highest recorded value was 2.15 1000 ha in 2002.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Channel Islands?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.94 1000 ha in 2023.
- How does Channel Islands rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Channel Islands ranks 188th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Channel Islands?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Channel Islands 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.