Guinea-Bissau - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Guinea-Bissau was 28,120 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28,120 in 2021 and a minimum value of 28,120 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 28,120
1962 28,120
1963 28,120
1964 28,120
1965 28,120
1966 28,120
1967 28,120
1968 28,120
1969 28,120
1970 28,120
1971 28,120
1972 28,120
1973 28,120
1974 28,120
1975 28,120
1976 28,120
1977 28,120
1978 28,120
1979 28,120
1980 28,120
1981 28,120
1982 28,120
1983 28,120
1984 28,120
1985 28,120
1986 28,120
1987 28,120
1988 28,120
1989 28,120
1990 28,120
1991 28,120
1992 28,120
1993 28,120
1994 28,120
1995 28,120
1996 28,120
1997 28,120
1998 28,120
1999 28,120
2000 28,120
2001 28,120
2002 28,120
2003 28,120
2004 28,120
2005 28,120
2006 28,120
2007 28,120
2008 28,120
2009 28,120
2010 28,120
2011 28,120
2012 28,120
2013 28,120
2014 28,120
2015 28,120
2016 28,120
2017 28,120
2018 28,120
2019 28,120
2020 28,120
2021 28,120

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