Netherlands - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Netherlands was 33,670 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33,760 in 2008 and a minimum value of 33,670 in 2015.

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 33,760
1962 33,760
1963 33,760
1964 33,760
1965 33,760
1966 33,760
1967 33,760
1968 33,760
1969 33,760
1970 33,760
1971 33,760
1972 33,760
1973 33,760
1974 33,760
1975 33,760
1976 33,760
1977 33,760
1978 33,760
1979 33,760
1980 33,760
1981 33,760
1982 33,760
1983 33,760
1984 33,760
1985 33,760
1986 33,760
1987 33,760
1988 33,760
1989 33,760
1990 33,760
1991 33,760
1992 33,760
1993 33,760
1994 33,760
1995 33,760
1996 33,760
1997 33,760
1998 33,760
1999 33,760
2000 33,760
2001 33,760
2002 33,760
2003 33,760
2004 33,760
2005 33,760
2006 33,760
2007 33,760
2008 33,760
2009 33,730
2010 33,730
2011 33,720
2012 33,720
2013 33,690
2014 33,690
2015 33,670
2016 33,670
2017 33,670
2018 33,670
2019 33,670
2020 33,670
2021 33,670

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