Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area was 67.73 1000 ha in 2024. β² Rising
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β Area in United Arab Emirates, 2001β2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2024, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in United Arab Emirates stood at 67.73 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 3.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in United Arab Emirates peaked at 67.73 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 61.03 1000 ha, in 2001.
That places United Arab Emirates 89th out of 218 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 61.8 1000 ha | 61.03 1000 ha | 63.85 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 65.74 1000 ha | 64.41 1000 ha | 66.81 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 67.22 1000 ha | 66.89 1000 ha | 67.73 1000 ha | 5 |
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More environment data for United Arab Emirates
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.331 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.5 Β°C (2025)
- Recovered paper β Production 500,000 t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish β Production 500,000 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import value 121,727 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified β Import quantity 40,552 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Export value 397,634 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Export quantity 385,997 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard β Import value 744,532 1000 USD (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in United Arab Emirates?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area in United Arab Emirates was 67.73 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 United Arab Emirates?
- The highest recorded value was 67.73 1000 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area recorded in United Arab Emirates?
- The lowest recorded value was 61.03 1000 ha in 2001.
- How does United Arab Emirates rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area?
- United Arab Emirates ranks 89th out of 218 countries with data for 2024.
- Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) β area rising or falling in United Arab Emirates?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this United Arab Emirates 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.