Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Mexico
Mexico: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,114 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Mexico, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Mexico recorded 1,114 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 0.2% on the previous year and up 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Mexico peaked at 1,114 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,029 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Mexico 17th out of 240 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 1,038 1000 ha | 1,029 1000 ha | 1,051 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 1,077 1000 ha | 1,057 1000 ha | 1,094 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,106 1000 ha | 1,097 1000 ha | 1,114 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mexico
More environment data for Mexico
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 29.94 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 7,304 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 1,324 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 38.09 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 75.22 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 74,036 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 4.46 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 4,393 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 20.32 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 20,001 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Mexico?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Mexico was 1,114 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 Mexico?
- The highest recorded value was 1,114 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Mexico?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,029 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Mexico rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Mexico ranks 17th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Mexico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mexico 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.