Cuba - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Cuba was 103,800 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 107,400 in 2001 and a minimum value of 103,800 in 2017.

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 107,400
1962 107,400
1963 107,400
1964 107,400
1965 107,400
1966 107,400
1967 107,400
1968 107,400
1969 107,400
1970 107,400
1971 107,400
1972 107,400
1973 107,400
1974 107,400
1975 107,400
1976 107,400
1977 107,400
1978 107,400
1979 107,400
1980 107,400
1981 107,400
1982 107,400
1983 107,400
1984 107,400
1985 107,400
1986 107,400
1987 107,400
1988 107,400
1989 107,400
1990 107,400
1991 107,400
1992 107,400
1993 107,400
1994 107,400
1995 107,400
1996 107,400
1997 107,400
1998 107,400
1999 107,400
2000 107,400
2001 107,400
2002 106,390
2003 106,400
2004 106,410
2005 106,440
2006 106,430
2007 106,440
2008 106,440
2009 106,440
2010 106,440
2011 106,863
2012 106,649
2013 104,220
2014 104,020
2015 104,100
2016 104,040
2017 103,800
2018 103,800
2019 103,800
2020 103,800
2021 103,800

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