Ecuador - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Ecuador was 248,360 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 276,840 in 1997 and a minimum value of 248,360 in 1998.

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 276,840
1962 276,840
1963 276,840
1964 276,840
1965 276,840
1966 276,840
1967 276,840
1968 276,840
1969 276,840
1970 276,840
1971 276,840
1972 276,840
1973 276,840
1974 276,840
1975 276,840
1976 276,840
1977 276,840
1978 276,840
1979 276,840
1980 276,840
1981 276,840
1982 276,840
1983 276,840
1984 276,840
1985 276,840
1986 276,840
1987 276,840
1988 276,840
1989 276,840
1990 276,840
1991 276,840
1992 276,840
1993 276,840
1994 276,840
1995 276,840
1996 276,840
1997 276,840
1998 248,360
1999 248,360
2000 248,360
2001 248,360
2002 248,360
2003 248,360
2004 248,360
2005 248,360
2006 248,360
2007 248,360
2008 248,360
2009 248,360
2010 248,360
2011 248,360
2012 248,360
2013 248,360
2014 248,360
2015 248,360
2016 248,360
2017 248,360
2018 248,360
2019 248,360
2020 248,360
2021 248,360

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