Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Republic of Korea
Republic of Korea: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 614.98 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Republic of Korea, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Republic of Korea recorded 614.98 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — 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 3.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Republic of Korea peaked at 614.98 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 572.89 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Republic of Korea 25th out of 223 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 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 Republic of Korea, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 572.89 1000 ha | — |
| 2002 | 575.92 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 577.04 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 577.74 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 578.45 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 580.04 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 580.99 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2008 | 581.67 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 584.12 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2010 | 585.6 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 587.17 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 588.31 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 590.24 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 591.66 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 593.87 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 595.61 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 598.83 1000 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 603.38 1000 ha | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 605.74 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 607.83 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 609.37 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 611.07 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 613.62 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 614.98 1000 ha | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 578.76 1000 ha | 572.89 1000 ha | 584.12 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 594.04 1000 ha | 585.6 1000 ha | 605.74 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 611.37 1000 ha | 607.83 1000 ha | 614.98 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Republic of Korea
More environment data for Republic of Korea
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.9 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.504 °C (2025)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 9,980 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.03 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 15.42 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 96.41 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 1,505 1000 ha (2024)
- Agriculture — Area 1,561 1000 ha (2024)
- Country area — Area 10,046 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Republic of Korea?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Republic of Korea was 614.98 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 Republic of Korea?
- The highest recorded value was 614.98 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Republic of Korea?
- The lowest recorded value was 572.89 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Republic of Korea rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Republic of Korea ranks 25th out of 223 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Republic of Korea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Republic of Korea 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.