Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” Area in Nicaragua

Nicaragua: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” Area was 21.08 1000 ha in 2022. β–² Rising

Latest (2022)
21.08 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.1%
World rank
137th
of 218 countries
All-time high
21.08 1000 ha
in 2022
All-time low
19.42 1000 ha
in 2001
Years of data
22
2001–2022

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” Area in Nicaragua, 2001–2022

051015202001201120222001: 19.4 1000 ha2002: 19.6 1000 ha2003: 19.6 1000 ha2004: 19.6 1000 ha2005: 19.6 1000 ha2006: 19.7 1000 ha2007: 19.7 1000 ha2008: 19.7 1000 ha2009: 19.8 1000 ha2010: 19.8 1000 ha2011: 19.8 1000 ha2012: 19.9 1000 ha2013: 19.9 1000 ha2014: 20 1000 ha2015: 20.2 1000 ha2016: 20.4 1000 ha2017: 20.4 1000 ha2018: 20.6 1000 ha2019: 20.8 1000 ha2020: 20.9 1000 ha2021: 21.1 1000 ha2022: 21.1 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Nicaragua recorded 21.08 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area in 2022. That is the highest value across all 22 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 5.9% over ten years.

Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area in Nicaragua peaked at 21.08 1000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 19.42 1000 ha, in 2001.

That places Nicaragua 137th out of 218 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 22 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 19.65 1000 ha 19.42 1000 ha 19.82 1000 ha 9
2010s 20.18 1000 ha 19.8 1000 ha 20.76 1000 ha 10
2020s 21 1000 ha 20.87 1000 ha 21.08 1000 ha 3

Countries ranked near Nicaragua

  1. 134 Sierra Leone 23.09 1000 ha compare
  2. 135 Brunei Darussalam 22.91 1000 ha compare
  3. 136 Estonia, Republic of 21.45 1000 ha compare
  4. 138 El Salvador 20.98 1000 ha compare
  5. 139 Bahrain, Kingdom of 20.74 1000 ha compare
  6. 140 Netherlands Antilles (former) 19.89 1000 ha compare

See the full ranking of 269 places β†’

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Frequently asked questions

What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area in Nicaragua?
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area in Nicaragua was 21.08 1000 ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area recorded in Nicaragua?
The highest recorded value was 21.08 1000 ha in 2022.
What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area recorded in Nicaragua?
The lowest recorded value was 19.42 1000 ha in 2001.
How does Nicaragua rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area?
Nicaragua ranks 137th out of 218 countries with data for 2022.
Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” area rising or falling in Nicaragua?
Over the last ten years it is up 5.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Nicaragua 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) β€” Area from MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β€” Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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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 UniversitΓ© 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.