Urban land area per continent
This bar chart displays urban land area (km²) by continent using the aggregation sum. The data is from our continents entity.
Type: Bar Chart
Y-axis: urban land area
number of countries
number of regions
agricultural land
forest area
land area
rural land area
urban land area
central government debt
expense
GDP
self-employed workers
tax revenue
unemployment
vulnerable employment
access to electricity
alternative and nuclear energy
electricity production from coal sources
electricity production from hydroelectric sources
electricity production from natural gas sources
electricity production from nuclear sources
electricity production from oil sources
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric
net energy imports
fossil fuel energy consumption
renewable energy consumption
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2)
methane emissions
nitrous oxide emissions
other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters
health expenditure
health expenditure per capita
hospital beds
incidence of HIV
suicide mortality rate
armed forces personnel
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence
military expenditure
birth rate
death rate
fertility rate
individuals using the Internet
life expectancy at birth
net migration
female population
male population
population
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments
rural population
urban population
press freedom
democracy score
median age
continents
Analysis
Legend
There are 2 fields used on this chart (including filters):
- Continent: Name of continent.
- Urban Land Area: Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons. This field is expressed in km².
Details
This chart is based on data from: World Bank
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