Costa Rica - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Costa Rica was 51,060 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 51,060 in 2021 and a minimum value of 51,060 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 51,060
1962 51,060
1963 51,060
1964 51,060
1965 51,060
1966 51,060
1967 51,060
1968 51,060
1969 51,060
1970 51,060
1971 51,060
1972 51,060
1973 51,060
1974 51,060
1975 51,060
1976 51,060
1977 51,060
1978 51,060
1979 51,060
1980 51,060
1981 51,060
1982 51,060
1983 51,060
1984 51,060
1985 51,060
1986 51,060
1987 51,060
1988 51,060
1989 51,060
1990 51,060
1991 51,060
1992 51,060
1993 51,060
1994 51,060
1995 51,060
1996 51,060
1997 51,060
1998 51,060
1999 51,060
2000 51,060
2001 51,060
2002 51,060
2003 51,060
2004 51,060
2005 51,060
2006 51,060
2007 51,060
2008 51,060
2009 51,060
2010 51,060
2011 51,060
2012 51,060
2013 51,060
2014 51,060
2015 51,060
2016 51,060
2017 51,060
2018 51,060
2019 51,060
2020 51,060
2021 51,060

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