Italy - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Italy was 297,730 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 297,730 in 2021 and a minimum value of 294,110 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 294,110
1962 294,110
1963 294,110
1964 294,110
1965 294,110
1966 294,110
1967 294,110
1968 294,110
1969 294,110
1970 294,110
1971 294,110
1972 294,110
1973 294,110
1974 294,110
1975 294,110
1976 294,110
1977 294,110
1978 294,110
1979 294,110
1980 294,110
1981 294,110
1982 294,110
1983 294,110
1984 294,110
1985 294,110
1986 294,110
1987 294,110
1988 294,110
1989 294,110
1990 294,110
1991 294,110
1992 294,110
1993 294,110
1994 294,110
1995 294,110
1996 294,110
1997 294,110
1998 294,110
1999 294,110
2000 294,110
2001 294,110
2002 294,110
2003 294,140
2004 294,140
2005 294,140
2006 294,140
2007 294,140
2008 294,140
2009 294,140
2010 294,140
2011 294,140
2012 294,140
2013 294,140
2014 294,140
2015 294,140
2016 294,140
2017 294,140
2018 297,730
2019 297,730
2020 297,730
2021 297,730

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