Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 2.63 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Faroe Islands, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2024, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Faroe Islands stood at 2.63 1000 ha.
That represents a change of down 4.0% on the previous year and up 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Faroe Islands peaked at 2.74 1000 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 2.27 1000 ha, in 2001.
Faroe Islands ranks 169th of 223 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Faroe Islands, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2.27 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 2.57 1000 ha | +13.2% |
| 2003 | 2.59 1000 ha | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 2.48 1000 ha | -4.2% |
| 2005 | 2.38 1000 ha | -4.0% |
| 2006 | 2.44 1000 ha | +2.5% |
| 2007 | 2.38 1000 ha | -2.5% |
| 2008 | 2.38 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 2.35 1000 ha | -1.3% |
| 2010 | 2.4 1000 ha | +2.1% |
| 2011 | 2.42 1000 ha | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 2.42 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 2.44 1000 ha | +0.8% |
| 2014 | 2.55 1000 ha | +4.5% |
| 2015 | 2.53 1000 ha | -0.8% |
| 2016 | 2.55 1000 ha | +0.8% |
| 2017 | 2.55 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 2.59 1000 ha | +1.6% |
| 2019 | 2.59 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 2.63 1000 ha | +1.5% |
| 2021 | 2.68 1000 ha | +1.9% |
| 2022 | 2.72 1000 ha | +1.5% |
| 2023 | 2.74 1000 ha | +0.7% |
| 2024 | 2.63 1000 ha | -4.0% |
Faroe Islands compared with similar countries
- Faroe Islands's 2.63 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 38.62 1000 ha, 7% of the median. (73 countries reporting)
- Faroe Islands's 2.63 1000 ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 109.11 1000 ha, 2% of the median. (51 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2.43 1000 ha | 2.27 1000 ha | 2.59 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 2.5 1000 ha | 2.4 1000 ha | 2.59 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.68 1000 ha | 2.63 1000 ha | 2.74 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Faroe Islands
More environment data for Faroe Islands
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 3.37 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 5.94 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.468 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.67 °C (2025)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Agricultural Use 5 t (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per capita 0.32 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per area of cropland 71.43 kg/ha (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per capita 0.09 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 0.75 g/Int$ (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Faroe Islands?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Faroe Islands was 2.63 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 Faroe Islands?
- The highest recorded value was 2.74 1000 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Faroe Islands?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.27 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Faroe Islands rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Faroe Islands ranks 169th out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Faroe Islands?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Faroe 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.