Iceland - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Iceland was 100,830 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 100,830 in 2021 and a minimum value of 100,250 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.

See also:

Year Value
1961 100,250
1962 100,250
1963 100,250
1964 100,250
1965 100,250
1966 100,250
1967 100,250
1968 100,250
1969 100,250
1970 100,250
1971 100,250
1972 100,250
1973 100,250
1974 100,250
1975 100,250
1976 100,250
1977 100,250
1978 100,250
1979 100,250
1980 100,250
1981 100,250
1982 100,250
1983 100,250
1984 100,250
1985 100,250
1986 100,250
1987 100,250
1988 100,250
1989 100,250
1990 100,250
1991 100,250
1992 100,250
1993 100,250
1994 100,250
1995 100,250
1996 100,250
1997 100,250
1998 100,250
1999 100,250
2000 100,250
2001 100,250
2002 100,250
2003 100,250
2004 100,250
2005 100,250
2006 100,250
2007 100,250
2008 100,250
2009 100,250
2010 100,250
2011 100,250
2012 100,250
2013 100,250
2014 100,250
2015 100,250
2016 100,250
2017 100,250
2018 100,830
2019 100,830
2020 100,830
2021 100,830

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