Guatemala - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Guatemala was 107,160 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 107,160 in 2021 and a minimum value of 107,160 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 107,160
1962 107,160
1963 107,160
1964 107,160
1965 107,160
1966 107,160
1967 107,160
1968 107,160
1969 107,160
1970 107,160
1971 107,160
1972 107,160
1973 107,160
1974 107,160
1975 107,160
1976 107,160
1977 107,160
1978 107,160
1979 107,160
1980 107,160
1981 107,160
1982 107,160
1983 107,160
1984 107,160
1985 107,160
1986 107,160
1987 107,160
1988 107,160
1989 107,160
1990 107,160
1991 107,160
1992 107,160
1993 107,160
1994 107,160
1995 107,160
1996 107,160
1997 107,160
1998 107,160
1999 107,160
2000 107,160
2001 107,160
2002 107,160
2003 107,160
2004 107,160
2005 107,160
2006 107,160
2007 107,160
2008 107,160
2009 107,160
2010 107,160
2011 107,160
2012 107,160
2013 107,160
2014 107,160
2015 107,160
2016 107,160
2017 107,160
2018 107,160
2019 107,160
2020 107,160
2021 107,160

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