Burkina Faso - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Burkina Faso was 273,600 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 273,600 in 2021 and a minimum value of 273,600 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 273,600
1962 273,600
1963 273,600
1964 273,600
1965 273,600
1966 273,600
1967 273,600
1968 273,600
1969 273,600
1970 273,600
1971 273,600
1972 273,600
1973 273,600
1974 273,600
1975 273,600
1976 273,600
1977 273,600
1978 273,600
1979 273,600
1980 273,600
1981 273,600
1982 273,600
1983 273,600
1984 273,600
1985 273,600
1986 273,600
1987 273,600
1988 273,600
1989 273,600
1990 273,600
1991 273,600
1992 273,600
1993 273,600
1994 273,600
1995 273,600
1996 273,600
1997 273,600
1998 273,600
1999 273,600
2000 273,600
2001 273,600
2002 273,600
2003 273,600
2004 273,600
2005 273,600
2006 273,600
2007 273,600
2008 273,600
2009 273,600
2010 273,600
2011 273,600
2012 273,600
2013 273,600
2014 273,600
2015 273,600
2016 273,600
2017 273,600
2018 273,600
2019 273,600
2020 273,600
2021 273,600

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