Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in South-Eastern Asia
South-Eastern Asia: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 3,955 1000 ha in 2024. β² Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in South-Eastern Asia, 2001β2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
South-Eastern Asia recorded 3,955 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.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 6.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in South-Eastern Asia peaked at 3,955 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 3,392 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places South-Eastern Asia 8th out of 44 regions 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3,515 1000 ha | 3,392 1000 ha | 3,594 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 3,720 1000 ha | 3,614 1000 ha | 3,828 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,906 1000 ha | 3,855 1000 ha | 3,955 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South-Eastern Asia
More environment data for South-Eastern Asia
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.195 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.1 Β°C (2025)
- Recovered paper β Production 10.49 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish β Production 22.16 million t (2024)
- Cropland β Share in Agricultural land 87.34 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) β Use per value of agricultural production 14.29 g/Int$ (2024)
- Country area β Area 450,768 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area β Area 442,430 1000 ha (2024)
- Agriculture β Area 132,290 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in South-Eastern Asia?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in South-Eastern Asia was 3,955 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 South-Eastern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,955 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in South-Eastern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,392 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does South-Eastern Asia rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- South-Eastern Asia ranks 8th out of 44 regions with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area rising or falling in South-Eastern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South-Eastern Asia 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.