Venezuela - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Venezuela was 882,050 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 882,050 in 2021 and a minimum value of 882,050 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 882,050
1962 882,050
1963 882,050
1964 882,050
1965 882,050
1966 882,050
1967 882,050
1968 882,050
1969 882,050
1970 882,050
1971 882,050
1972 882,050
1973 882,050
1974 882,050
1975 882,050
1976 882,050
1977 882,050
1978 882,050
1979 882,050
1980 882,050
1981 882,050
1982 882,050
1983 882,050
1984 882,050
1985 882,050
1986 882,050
1987 882,050
1988 882,050
1989 882,050
1990 882,050
1991 882,050
1992 882,050
1993 882,050
1994 882,050
1995 882,050
1996 882,050
1997 882,050
1998 882,050
1999 882,050
2000 882,050
2001 882,050
2002 882,050
2003 882,050
2004 882,050
2005 882,050
2006 882,050
2007 882,050
2008 882,050
2009 882,050
2010 882,050
2011 882,050
2012 882,050
2013 882,050
2014 882,050
2015 882,050
2016 882,050
2017 882,050
2018 882,050
2019 882,050
2020 882,050
2021 882,050

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