Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 5,929 1000 ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Southern Asia, 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 Southern Asia stood at 5,929 1000 ha. 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 2.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Southern Asia peaked at 5,929 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,673 1000 ha, in 2001.
Southern Asia ranks 11th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5,709 1000 ha | 5,673 1000 ha | 5,737 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 5,796 1000 ha | 5,744 1000 ha | 5,850 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,896 1000 ha | 5,866 1000 ha | 5,929 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Asia
More environment data for Southern Asia
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 6.69 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 0.4009 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.274 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.44 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 15.39 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 8.45 million t (2024)
- Cropland — Area 238,515 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 1.52 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 4.25 g/Int$ (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Southern Asia?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Southern Asia was 5,929 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 Southern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 5,929 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,673 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does Southern Asia rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Southern Asia ranks 11th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Southern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Southern 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) — 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.