Land
Land usage is a major environmental impact due to habitat loss.
Agriculture uses vastly more land than all other human activity combined.
Statistics
Earth Surface: 510 million km2
- Oceans: 361 million km2 (71% of Earth Surface)
- Land: 149 million km2 (29% of Earth Surface)
- Pasture: 28 million km2 (19% of Land)
- Cropland: 15 million km2 (10% of Land)
- Built-up land: 1.5 million km2 (1% of Land)
- "Built-up" includes all housing (cities, suburbs, towns, etc), buildings, roads, infrastructure and more.
These numbers are from OurWorldInData
Maps
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