Arab World - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Arab World was 13,081,760 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13,716,800 in 1972 and a minimum value of 13,081,760 in 2018.

Definition: Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

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Year Value
1961 13,716,800
1962 13,716,800
1963 13,716,800
1964 13,716,800
1965 13,716,800
1966 13,716,800
1967 13,716,800
1968 13,716,800
1969 13,716,800
1970 13,716,800
1971 13,716,800
1972 13,716,800
1973 13,716,760
1974 13,716,760
1975 13,716,760
1976 13,716,760
1977 13,716,760
1978 13,716,760
1979 13,716,760
1980 13,716,760
1981 13,716,760
1982 13,716,760
1983 13,716,760
1984 13,716,760
1985 13,716,760
1986 13,716,760
1987 13,716,760
1988 13,716,760
1989 13,716,760
1990 13,716,760
1991 13,716,760
1992 13,716,780
1993 13,716,780
1994 13,716,780
1995 13,716,780
1996 13,716,780
1997 13,716,780
1998 13,716,780
1999 13,716,780
2000 13,716,780
2001 13,716,780
2002 13,716,780
2003 13,716,600
2004 13,716,590
2005 13,716,600
2006 13,716,660
2007 13,716,680
2008 13,716,690
2009 13,714,180
2010 13,714,180
2011 13,082,200
2012 13,082,210
2013 13,082,020
2014 13,081,870
2015 13,081,880
2016 13,081,770
2017 13,081,770
2018 13,081,760
2019 13,081,760
2020 13,081,760
2021 13,081,760

Development Relevance: Land area is particularly important for understanding an economy's agricultural capacity and the environmental effects of human activity. Innovations in satellite mapping and computer databases have resulted in more precise measurements of land and water areas. Population, land area, income, and output are basic measures of the size of an economy. They also provide a broad indication of actual and potential resources. Land area is therefore used as one of the major indicator to normalize other indicators.

Limitations and Exceptions: The data are collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations through annual questionnaires. The FAO tries to impose standard definitions and reporting methods, but complete consistency across countries and over time is not possible. The data collected from official national sources through the questionnaire are supplemented with information from official secondary data sources. The secondary sources cover official country data from websites of national ministries, national publications and related country data reported by various international organizations.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Total land area does not include inland water bodies such as major rivers and lakes. Variations from year to year may be due to updated or revised data rather than to change in area.

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use