Middle income - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Middle income was 79,167,320 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79,178,660 in 2016 and a minimum value of 79,094,570 in 2014.

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 79,169,980
1962 79,169,980
1963 79,169,980
1964 79,169,980
1965 79,169,980
1966 79,169,980
1967 79,169,980
1968 79,169,980
1969 79,169,980
1970 79,169,980
1971 79,169,980
1972 79,169,980
1973 79,169,920
1974 79,169,880
1975 79,169,980
1976 79,169,860
1977 79,169,850
1978 79,169,850
1979 79,169,850
1980 79,169,850
1981 79,169,850
1982 79,169,840
1983 79,169,840
1984 79,169,840
1985 79,169,840
1986 79,169,840
1987 79,169,840
1988 79,169,840
1989 79,168,850
1990 79,168,850
1991 79,169,840
1992 79,169,840
1993 79,166,140
1994 79,154,420
1995 79,151,490
1996 79,151,090
1997 79,151,780
1998 79,125,870
1999 79,132,700
2000 79,111,420
2001 79,110,550
2002 79,107,820
2003 79,107,470
2004 79,105,980
2005 79,106,020
2006 79,102,500
2007 79,102,210
2008 79,101,120
2009 79,098,620
2010 79,098,640
2011 79,099,220
2012 79,098,740
2013 79,096,070
2014 79,094,570
2015 79,112,730
2016 79,178,660
2017 79,178,140
2018 79,167,320
2019 79,167,320
2020 79,167,320
2021 79,167,320

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