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

These images were made "in-house" from multiple data sets. To read more, click on an image for the full page about it.