Low income - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Low income was 14,953,570 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14,953,690 in 2015 and a minimum value of 14,823,450 in 2003.

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 14,925,440
1962 14,925,440
1963 14,925,440
1964 14,925,440
1965 14,925,440
1966 14,925,440
1967 14,925,440
1968 14,925,440
1969 14,925,440
1970 14,925,440
1971 14,925,440
1972 14,925,440
1973 14,925,440
1974 14,925,040
1975 14,924,640
1976 14,924,640
1977 14,924,640
1978 14,924,640
1979 14,924,640
1980 14,924,640
1981 14,924,640
1982 14,924,640
1983 14,924,640
1984 14,924,640
1985 14,924,640
1986 14,924,640
1987 14,924,640
1988 14,924,640
1989 14,924,640
1990 14,924,640
1991 14,924,640
1992 14,924,640
1993 14,823,640
1994 14,823,640
1995 14,823,640
1996 14,823,640
1997 14,823,640
1998 14,823,640
1999 14,823,640
2000 14,823,640
2001 14,823,640
2002 14,823,640
2003 14,823,450
2004 14,952,700
2005 14,952,750
2006 14,952,810
2007 14,952,790
2008 14,952,780
2009 14,952,770
2010 14,953,460
2011 14,953,670
2012 14,953,670
2013 14,953,670
2014 14,953,640
2015 14,953,690
2016 14,953,600
2017 14,953,570
2018 14,953,570
2019 14,953,570
2020 14,953,570
2021 14,953,570

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