Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Egypt
Egypt: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 539.03 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Egypt, 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 Egypt is 539.03 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 6.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Egypt peaked at 539.03 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 482.56 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Egypt 30th out of 240 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 487.36 1000 ha | 482.56 1000 ha | 491.39 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 508.15 1000 ha | 494.8 1000 ha | 525.33 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 533.2 1000 ha | 527.47 1000 ha | 539.03 1000 ha | 5 |
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More environment data for Egypt
- Standard Deviation 0.361 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.4 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 380,000 t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 541,000 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import value 32,107 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import quantity 9,567 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export value 207,061 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export quantity 215,831 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import value 612,857 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import quantity 564,538 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Egypt?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Egypt was 539.03 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 Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 539.03 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 482.56 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Egypt rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Egypt ranks 30th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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.