Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Fiji
Fiji: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 0.62 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Fiji, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Fiji recorded 0.62 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 72.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Fiji peaked at 0.62 1000 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 0.3 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Fiji 185th out of 223 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 Fiji, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 0.3 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 0.3 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 0.3 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 0.3 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 0.3 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 0.3 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 0.3 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 0.32 1000 ha | +6.7% |
| 2009 | 0.34 1000 ha | +6.3% |
| 2010 | 0.34 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 0.34 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 0.36 1000 ha | +5.9% |
| 2013 | 0.36 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 0.36 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.36 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.43 1000 ha | +19.4% |
| 2017 | 0.47 1000 ha | +9.3% |
| 2018 | 0.53 1000 ha | +12.8% |
| 2019 | 0.58 1000 ha | +9.4% |
| 2020 | 0.6 1000 ha | +3.4% |
| 2021 | 0.62 1000 ha | +3.3% |
| 2022 | 0.62 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.62 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.62 1000 ha | +0.0% |
Fiji compared with similar countries
- Fiji's 0.62 1000 ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 91.88 1000 ha, 1% of the median. (52 countries reporting)
- Fiji's 0.62 1000 ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 3.66 1000 ha, 17% of the median. (27 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.3067 1000 ha | 0.3 1000 ha | 0.34 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 0.413 1000 ha | 0.34 1000 ha | 0.58 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.616 1000 ha | 0.6 1000 ha | 0.62 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Fiji
- 182 Grenada 0.88 1000 ha compare
- 183 Isle of Man 0.78 1000 ha compare
- 184 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.68 1000 ha compare
- 185 Dominica 0.62 1000 ha compare
- 187 Anguilla 0.51 1000 ha compare
- 188 Montserrat 0.49 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Fiji
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.219 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.31 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 3.85 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate 2.25 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Fiji?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Fiji was 0.62 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 Fiji?
- The highest recorded value was 0.62 1000 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Fiji?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Fiji rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Fiji ranks 185th out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Fiji?
- Over the last ten years it is up 72.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Fiji 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.