Barbados - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Barbados was 430.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 430.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 430.00 in 1961.

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 430.00
1962 430.00
1963 430.00
1964 430.00
1965 430.00
1966 430.00
1967 430.00
1968 430.00
1969 430.00
1970 430.00
1971 430.00
1972 430.00
1973 430.00
1974 430.00
1975 430.00
1976 430.00
1977 430.00
1978 430.00
1979 430.00
1980 430.00
1981 430.00
1982 430.00
1983 430.00
1984 430.00
1985 430.00
1986 430.00
1987 430.00
1988 430.00
1989 430.00
1990 430.00
1991 430.00
1992 430.00
1993 430.00
1994 430.00
1995 430.00
1996 430.00
1997 430.00
1998 430.00
1999 430.00
2000 430.00
2001 430.00
2002 430.00
2003 430.00
2004 430.00
2005 430.00
2006 430.00
2007 430.00
2008 430.00
2009 430.00
2010 430.00
2011 430.00
2012 430.00
2013 430.00
2014 430.00
2015 430.00
2016 430.00
2017 430.00
2018 430.00
2019 430.00
2020 430.00
2021 430.00

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