Jordan - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Jordan was 88,780 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 88,780 in 2021 and a minimum value of 88,240 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 88,240
1962 88,240
1963 88,240
1964 88,240
1965 88,240
1966 88,240
1967 88,240
1968 88,240
1969 88,240
1970 88,240
1971 88,240
1972 88,240
1973 88,240
1974 88,240
1975 88,240
1976 88,240
1977 88,240
1978 88,240
1979 88,240
1980 88,240
1981 88,240
1982 88,240
1983 88,240
1984 88,240
1985 88,240
1986 88,240
1987 88,240
1988 88,240
1989 88,240
1990 88,240
1991 88,240
1992 88,240
1993 88,240
1994 88,240
1995 88,240
1996 88,240
1997 88,240
1998 88,240
1999 88,240
2000 88,240
2001 88,240
2002 88,240
2003 88,240
2004 88,240
2005 88,240
2006 88,240
2007 88,240
2008 88,240
2009 88,780
2010 88,780
2011 88,780
2012 88,780
2013 88,780
2014 88,780
2015 88,780
2016 88,780
2017 88,780
2018 88,780
2019 88,780
2020 88,780
2021 88,780

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