Austria - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Austria was 82,520 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82,580 in 2006 and a minimum value of 82,520 in 2015.

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 82,580
1962 82,580
1963 82,580
1964 82,580
1965 82,580
1966 82,580
1967 82,580
1968 82,580
1969 82,580
1970 82,580
1971 82,580
1972 82,580
1973 82,580
1974 82,580
1975 82,580
1976 82,580
1977 82,580
1978 82,580
1979 82,580
1980 82,580
1981 82,580
1982 82,580
1983 82,580
1984 82,580
1985 82,580
1986 82,580
1987 82,580
1988 82,580
1989 82,580
1990 82,580
1991 82,580
1992 82,580
1993 82,580
1994 82,580
1995 82,580
1996 82,580
1997 82,580
1998 82,580
1999 82,580
2000 82,580
2001 82,580
2002 82,580
2003 82,580
2004 82,580
2005 82,580
2006 82,580
2007 82,578
2008 82,578
2009 82,578
2010 82,571
2011 82,561
2012 82,554
2013 82,531
2014 82,523
2015 82,520
2016 82,520
2017 82,520
2018 82,520
2019 82,520
2020 82,520
2021 82,520

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