Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Oceania
Oceania: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,288 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Oceania, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2024, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Oceania stood at 1,288 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 2.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Oceania peaked at 1,288 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,219 1000 ha, in 2001.
Oceania ranks 21st of 26 groups on this measure, 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 Oceania, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1,219 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 1,231 1000 ha | +1.0% |
| 2003 | 1,235 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 1,237 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 1,240 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 1,242 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,245 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 1,247 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,249 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 1,253 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 1,257 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 1,259 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 1,261 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,262 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,265 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,267 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,271 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,275 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 1,278 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 1,281 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 1,284 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 1,286 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,288 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,288 1000 ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,238 1000 ha | 1,219 1000 ha | 1,249 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 1,265 1000 ha | 1,253 1000 ha | 1,278 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,286 1000 ha | 1,281 1000 ha | 1,288 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Oceania
- 18 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0 1000 ha
- 18 South Africa 1,111 1000 ha compare
- 18 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0 1000 ha
- 18 Polynesia 0 1000 ha
- 19 Canada 1,099 1000 ha compare
- 20 Nigeria 898.22 1000 ha compare
- 21 Poland 840.17 1000 ha compare
- 22 Pakistan 716.04 1000 ha compare
- 23 Spain 668.72 1000 ha compare
- 24 Thailand 639.44 1000 ha compare
- 24 Caribbean 501.64 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Oceania
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -3.36 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -4.4 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.36 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.316 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 2.98 million t (2024)
- Paper and paperboard — Production 3.18 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Production 2.93 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 5.00 million t (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 44.22 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Oceania?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Oceania was 1,288 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 Oceania?
- The highest recorded value was 1,288 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Oceania?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,219 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Oceania rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Oceania ranks 21st out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Oceania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Oceania 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.