High income - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in High income was 34,946,340 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34,949,000 in 2003 and a minimum value of 34,876,600 in 1985.

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 34,879,310
1962 34,879,290
1963 34,879,300
1964 34,879,300
1965 34,879,290
1966 34,879,280
1967 34,879,270
1968 34,879,260
1969 34,879,260
1970 34,879,250
1971 34,879,240
1972 34,879,140
1973 34,879,140
1974 34,879,110
1975 34,878,880
1976 34,878,800
1977 34,878,670
1978 34,878,670
1979 34,878,640
1980 34,878,370
1981 34,878,450
1982 34,878,230
1983 34,878,190
1984 34,876,700
1985 34,876,600
1986 34,876,700
1987 34,876,610
1988 34,876,600
1989 34,876,600
1990 34,876,600
1991 34,877,520
1992 34,877,580
1993 34,877,560
1994 34,877,550
1995 34,877,600
1996 34,877,560
1997 34,946,210
1998 34,946,110
1999 34,946,060
2000 34,948,260
2001 34,948,020
2002 34,948,560
2003 34,949,000
2004 34,948,780
2005 34,948,670
2006 34,948,050
2007 34,948,160
2008 34,933,180
2009 34,934,060
2010 34,935,560
2011 34,935,290
2012 34,930,240
2013 34,931,610
2014 34,932,720
2015 34,932,220
2016 34,942,330
2017 34,942,310
2018 34,946,340
2019 34,946,340
2020 34,946,340
2021 34,946,340

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