High income - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in High income was 34,946,340 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34,949,000 in 2003 and a minimum value of 34,876,600 in 1985.

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 34,879,310
1962 34,879,290
1963 34,879,300
1964 34,879,300
1965 34,879,290
1966 34,879,280
1967 34,879,270
1968 34,879,260
1969 34,879,260
1970 34,879,250
1971 34,879,240
1972 34,879,140
1973 34,879,140
1974 34,879,110
1975 34,878,880
1976 34,878,800
1977 34,878,670
1978 34,878,670
1979 34,878,640
1980 34,878,370
1981 34,878,450
1982 34,878,230
1983 34,878,190
1984 34,876,700
1985 34,876,600
1986 34,876,700
1987 34,876,610
1988 34,876,600
1989 34,876,600
1990 34,876,600
1991 34,877,520
1992 34,877,580
1993 34,877,560
1994 34,877,550
1995 34,877,600
1996 34,877,560
1997 34,946,210
1998 34,946,110
1999 34,946,060
2000 34,948,260
2001 34,948,020
2002 34,948,560
2003 34,949,000
2004 34,948,780
2005 34,948,670
2006 34,948,050
2007 34,948,160
2008 34,933,180
2009 34,934,060
2010 34,935,560
2011 34,935,290
2012 34,930,240
2013 34,931,610
2014 34,932,720
2015 34,932,220
2016 34,942,330
2017 34,942,310
2018 34,946,340
2019 34,946,340
2020 34,946,340
2021 34,946,340

Rural land area (sq. km)

Definition: Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 32,909,720
2000 32,909,720
2010 32,909,720

Urban land area (sq. km)

Definition: Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 1,773,492
2000 1,773,492
2010 1,773,492

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use