Lithuania - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Lithuania was 62,630 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62,680 in 2007 and a minimum value of 62,630 in 2018.

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 62,680
1962 62,680
1963 62,680
1964 62,680
1965 62,680
1966 62,680
1967 62,680
1968 62,680
1969 62,680
1970 62,680
1971 62,680
1972 62,680
1973 62,680
1974 62,680
1975 62,680
1976 62,680
1977 62,680
1978 62,680
1979 62,680
1980 62,680
1981 62,680
1982 62,680
1983 62,680
1984 62,680
1985 62,680
1986 62,680
1987 62,680
1988 62,680
1989 62,680
1990 62,680
1991 62,680
1992 62,680
1993 62,680
1994 62,680
1995 62,680
1996 62,680
1997 62,680
1998 62,680
1999 62,680
2000 62,680
2001 62,680
2002 62,680
2003 62,680
2004 62,680
2005 62,680
2006 62,680
2007 62,680
2008 62,675
2009 62,675
2010 62,675
2011 62,674
2012 62,674
2013 62,675
2014 62,650
2015 62,650
2016 62,642
2017 62,641
2018 62,630
2019 62,630
2020 62,630
2021 62,630

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