Upper middle income - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Upper middle income was 53,567,580 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 53,629,240 in 1976 and a minimum value of 53,567,580 in 2018.

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 53,629,110
1962 53,629,110
1963 53,629,110
1964 53,629,110
1965 53,629,110
1966 53,629,110
1967 53,629,110
1968 53,629,110
1969 53,629,110
1970 53,629,110
1971 53,629,110
1972 53,629,110
1973 53,629,110
1974 53,629,110
1975 53,629,240
1976 53,629,240
1977 53,629,230
1978 53,629,230
1979 53,629,230
1980 53,629,230
1981 53,629,230
1982 53,629,220
1983 53,629,220
1984 53,629,220
1985 53,629,220
1986 53,629,220
1987 53,629,220
1988 53,629,220
1989 53,628,230
1990 53,628,230
1991 53,628,520
1992 53,628,520
1993 53,624,830
1994 53,620,020
1995 53,617,100
1996 53,616,700
1997 53,617,380
1998 53,591,480
1999 53,598,300
2000 53,591,110
2001 53,590,210
2002 53,588,040
2003 53,588,160
2004 53,588,470
2005 53,588,540
2006 53,584,910
2007 53,584,610
2008 53,583,740
2009 53,581,250
2010 53,581,310
2011 53,581,870
2012 53,581,520
2013 53,578,920
2014 53,578,620
2015 53,578,710
2016 53,578,660
2017 53,578,430
2018 53,567,580
2019 53,567,580
2020 53,567,580
2021 53,567,580

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