St. Lucia - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in St. Lucia was 610.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 610.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 610.00 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 610.00
1962 610.00
1963 610.00
1964 610.00
1965 610.00
1966 610.00
1967 610.00
1968 610.00
1969 610.00
1970 610.00
1971 610.00
1972 610.00
1973 610.00
1974 610.00
1975 610.00
1976 610.00
1977 610.00
1978 610.00
1979 610.00
1980 610.00
1981 610.00
1982 610.00
1983 610.00
1984 610.00
1985 610.00
1986 610.00
1987 610.00
1988 610.00
1989 610.00
1990 610.00
1991 610.00
1992 610.00
1993 610.00
1994 610.00
1995 610.00
1996 610.00
1997 610.00
1998 610.00
1999 610.00
2000 610.00
2001 610.00
2002 610.00
2003 610.00
2004 610.00
2005 610.00
2006 610.00
2007 610.00
2008 610.00
2009 610.00
2010 610.00
2011 610.00
2012 610.00
2013 610.00
2014 610.00
2015 610.00
2016 610.00
2017 610.00
2018 610.00
2019 610.00
2020 610.00
2021 610.00

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