Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Réunion
Réunion: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 9.4 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Réunion, 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 Réunion is 9.4 1000 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 3.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Réunion peaked at 9.44 1000 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 8.52 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places Réunion 28th out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 8.81 1000 ha | 8.52 1000 ha | 8.93 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 9.14 1000 ha | 8.95 1000 ha | 9.35 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9.39 1000 ha | 9.33 1000 ha | 9.44 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Réunion
More environment data for Réunion
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.03 ha/cap (2024)
- Land area — Area 250.28 1000 ha (2024)
- Agriculture — Area 39.88 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Area 39.88 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 15.93 % (2024)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 4,947 USD_PPP/ha (2005)
- Cropland — Area 28.2 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 70.71 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 11.27 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 7.92 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Réunion?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Réunion was 9.4 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 Réunion?
- The highest recorded value was 9.44 1000 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Réunion?
- The lowest recorded value was 8.52 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Réunion rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Réunion ranks 28th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Réunion?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Réunion 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.