Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Northern America
Northern America: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 15,847 1000 ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Northern America, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Northern America is 15,847 1000 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Northern America peaked at 15,847 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 15,260 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Northern America 5th out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Northern America, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 15,260 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 15,324 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 15,345 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 15,370 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 15,413 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 15,457 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 15,492 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 15,521 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 15,538 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 15,562 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 15,586 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 15,604 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 15,612 1000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 15,629 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 15,652 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 15,669 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 15,689 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 15,710 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 15,735 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 15,757 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 15,779 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 15,804 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 15,829 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 15,847 1000 ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 15,413 1000 ha | 15,260 1000 ha | 15,538 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 15,645 1000 ha | 15,562 1000 ha | 15,735 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,803 1000 ha | 15,757 1000 ha | 15,847 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
More environment data for Northern America
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -2.23 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -3.25 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.466 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.49 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 43.74 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 92.54 million t (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 40.32 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 11.92 g/Int$ (2024)
- Country area — Area 2.59 million 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Northern America?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Northern America was 15,847 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 Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 15,847 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,260 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Northern America rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Northern America ranks 5th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Northern America 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.