New Zealand - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in New Zealand was 263,310 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 263,310 in 2021 and a minimum value of 263,310 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 263,310
1962 263,310
1963 263,310
1964 263,310
1965 263,310
1966 263,310
1967 263,310
1968 263,310
1969 263,310
1970 263,310
1971 263,310
1972 263,310
1973 263,310
1974 263,310
1975 263,310
1976 263,310
1977 263,310
1978 263,310
1979 263,310
1980 263,310
1981 263,310
1982 263,310
1983 263,310
1984 263,310
1985 263,310
1986 263,310
1987 263,310
1988 263,310
1989 263,310
1990 263,310
1991 263,310
1992 263,310
1993 263,310
1994 263,310
1995 263,310
1996 263,310
1997 263,310
1998 263,310
1999 263,310
2000 263,310
2001 263,310
2002 263,310
2003 263,310
2004 263,310
2005 263,310
2006 263,310
2007 263,310
2008 263,310
2009 263,310
2010 263,310
2011 263,310
2012 263,310
2013 263,310
2014 263,310
2015 263,310
2016 263,310
2017 263,310
2018 263,310
2019 263,310
2020 263,310
2021 263,310

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