Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Monaco
Monaco: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 0.04 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Monaco, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Monaco recorded 0.04 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 24 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 33.3% on the previous year and unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Monaco peaked at 0.11 1000 ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 0.04 1000 ha, in 2013.
Monaco ranks 202nd of 223 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Monaco, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 0.11 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 0.11 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 0.11 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 0.06 1000 ha | -45.5% |
| 2005 | 0.09 1000 ha | +50.0% |
| 2006 | 0.09 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 0.09 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 0.09 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 0.09 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 0.11 1000 ha | +22.2% |
| 2011 | 0.09 1000 ha | -18.2% |
| 2012 | 0.09 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 0.04 1000 ha | -55.6% |
| 2014 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.04 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.06 1000 ha | +50.0% |
| 2024 | 0.04 1000 ha | -33.3% |
Monaco compared with similar countries
- Monaco's 0.04 1000 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 38.62 1000 ha, 0% of the median. (73 countries reporting)
- Monaco's 0.04 1000 ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 109.11 1000 ha, 0% of the median. (51 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.0933 1000 ha | 0.06 1000 ha | 0.11 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 0.057 1000 ha | 0.04 1000 ha | 0.11 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.044 1000 ha | 0.04 1000 ha | 0.06 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Monaco
- 199 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0.06 1000 ha compare
- 199 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.06 1000 ha compare
- 199 Seychelles 0.06 1000 ha compare
- 203 American Samoa 0 1000 ha
- 203 Antarctica 0 1000 ha
- 203 Bermuda 0 1000 ha
- 203 Cook Islands 0 1000 ha
- 203 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 1000 ha
- 203 French Polynesia 0 1000 ha
- 203 Greenland 0 1000 ha
- 203 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0 1000 ha
- 203 Kiribati 0 1000 ha
- 203 Marshall Islands 0 1000 ha
- 203 Naoero 0 1000 ha
- 203 Niue 0 1000 ha
- 203 Norfolk Island 0 1000 ha
- 203 Palau 0 1000 ha
- 203 Pitcairn 0 1000 ha
- 203 Samoa 0 1000 ha
- 203 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0 1000 ha
- 203 Tokelau 0 1000 ha
- 203 Tonga 0 1000 ha
- 203 Tuvalu 0 1000 ha
- 203 United States Minor Outlying Islands 0 1000 ha
More environment data for Monaco
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 2.41 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.338 °C (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -5.01 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -5.01 Percentage change (2025)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons), annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons), per capita 0 metric tons per person (2024)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons), per unit of GDP 0 metric tons per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Country area — Area, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Heating Degree Days, per capita 0.0619 units per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Monaco?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Monaco was 0.04 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 Monaco?
- The highest recorded value was 0.11 1000 ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Monaco?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.04 1000 ha in 2013.
- How does Monaco rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Monaco ranks 202nd out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Monaco?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Monaco 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.