United Arab Emirates - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in United Arab Emirates was 71,020 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71,020 in 2021 and a minimum value of 71,020 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 71,020
1962 71,020
1963 71,020
1964 71,020
1965 71,020
1966 71,020
1967 71,020
1968 71,020
1969 71,020
1970 71,020
1971 71,020
1972 71,020
1973 71,020
1974 71,020
1975 71,020
1976 71,020
1977 71,020
1978 71,020
1979 71,020
1980 71,020
1981 71,020
1982 71,020
1983 71,020
1984 71,020
1985 71,020
1986 71,020
1987 71,020
1988 71,020
1989 71,020
1990 71,020
1991 71,020
1992 71,020
1993 71,020
1994 71,020
1995 71,020
1996 71,020
1997 71,020
1998 71,020
1999 71,020
2000 71,020
2001 71,020
2002 71,020
2003 71,020
2004 71,020
2005 71,020
2006 71,020
2007 71,020
2008 71,020
2009 71,020
2010 71,020
2011 71,020
2012 71,020
2013 71,020
2014 71,020
2015 71,020
2016 71,020
2017 71,020
2018 71,020
2019 71,020
2020 71,020
2021 71,020

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