Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 23.15 1000 ha in 2024. β² Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in Papua New Guinea, 2001β2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Papua New Guinea recorded 23.15 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β 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 3.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Papua New Guinea peaked at 23.15 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 21.57 1000 ha, in 2001.
Papua New Guinea ranks 133rd of 223 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 22.18 1000 ha | 21.57 1000 ha | 22.36 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 22.56 1000 ha | 22.27 1000 ha | 23.09 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 23.11 1000 ha | 23.09 1000 ha | 23.15 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea
- 130 Albania 24.61 1000 ha compare
- 131 China, Hong Kong SAR 24.47 1000 ha compare
- 132 Malawi 24.08 1000 ha compare
- 134 Sierra Leone 23.09 1000 ha compare
- 135 Brunei Darussalam 22.91 1000 ha compare
- 136 Estonia 21.45 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Papua New Guinea
- Historical exposure to drought β Land soil moisture anomaly 1.56 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought β Cropland soil moisture anomaly 2.24 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.183 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 0.834 Β°C (2025)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import 18.1 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import 0.0002 t per person (2024)
- Exposure to drought β Land soil moisture anomaly 1.15 Percentage change (2024)
- Exposure to drought β Cropland soil moisture anomaly -2.26 Percentage change (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import value 19.76 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Papua New Guinea?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in Papua New Guinea was 23.15 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) β area recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 23.15 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 21.57 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Papua New Guinea rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 133rd out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Papua New Guinea 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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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 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.