Ethiopia - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Ethiopia was 1,129,300 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,129,318 in 2005 and a minimum value of 1,000,000 in 1993.

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 1,101,000
1962 1,101,000
1963 1,101,000
1964 1,101,000
1965 1,101,000
1966 1,101,000
1967 1,101,000
1968 1,101,000
1969 1,101,000
1970 1,101,000
1971 1,101,000
1972 1,101,000
1973 1,101,000
1974 1,101,000
1975 1,101,000
1976 1,101,000
1977 1,101,000
1978 1,101,000
1979 1,101,000
1980 1,101,000
1981 1,101,000
1982 1,101,000
1983 1,101,000
1984 1,101,000
1985 1,101,000
1986 1,101,000
1987 1,101,000
1988 1,101,000
1989 1,101,000
1990 1,101,000
1991 1,101,000
1992 1,101,000
1993 1,000,000
1994 1,000,000
1995 1,000,000
1996 1,000,000
1997 1,000,000
1998 1,000,000
1999 1,000,000
2000 1,000,000
2001 1,000,000
2002 1,000,000
2003 1,000,000
2004 1,129,264
2005 1,129,318
2006 1,129,314
2007 1,129,287
2008 1,129,272
2009 1,129,271
2010 1,129,253
2011 1,129,208
2012 1,129,209
2013 1,129,212
2014 1,129,225
2015 1,129,273
2016 1,129,304
2017 1,129,280
2018 1,129,300
2019 1,129,300
2020 1,129,300
2021 1,129,300

Rural land area (sq. km)

Definition: Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 1,117,893
2000 1,117,893
2010 1,117,893

Urban land area (sq. km)

Definition: Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 5,167
2000 5,167
2010 5,167

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use