Lower middle income - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Lower middle income was 25,599,740 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25,599,990 in 2016 and a minimum value of 25,515,940 in 2014.

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 25,540,870
1962 25,540,870
1963 25,540,870
1964 25,540,870
1965 25,540,870
1966 25,540,870
1967 25,540,870
1968 25,540,870
1969 25,540,870
1970 25,540,870
1971 25,540,870
1972 25,540,870
1973 25,540,800
1974 25,540,760
1975 25,540,740
1976 25,540,610
1977 25,540,610
1978 25,540,610
1979 25,540,610
1980 25,540,610
1981 25,540,610
1982 25,540,610
1983 25,540,610
1984 25,540,610
1985 25,540,610
1986 25,540,610
1987 25,540,610
1988 25,540,610
1989 25,540,610
1990 25,540,610
1991 25,541,310
1992 25,541,310
1993 25,541,310
1994 25,534,390
1995 25,534,390
1996 25,534,390
1997 25,534,390
1998 25,534,390
1999 25,534,390
2000 25,520,310
2001 25,520,340
2002 25,519,790
2003 25,519,310
2004 25,517,510
2005 25,517,490
2006 25,517,580
2007 25,517,600
2008 25,517,380
2009 25,517,370
2010 25,517,330
2011 25,517,360
2012 25,517,220
2013 25,517,150
2014 25,515,940
2015 25,534,020
2016 25,599,990
2017 25,599,710
2018 25,599,740
2019 25,599,740
2020 25,599,740
2021 25,599,740

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