Zimbabwe - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Zimbabwe was 386,850 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 386,850 in 2021 and a minimum value of 386,850 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 386,850
1962 386,850
1963 386,850
1964 386,850
1965 386,850
1966 386,850
1967 386,850
1968 386,850
1969 386,850
1970 386,850
1971 386,850
1972 386,850
1973 386,850
1974 386,850
1975 386,850
1976 386,850
1977 386,850
1978 386,850
1979 386,850
1980 386,850
1981 386,850
1982 386,850
1983 386,850
1984 386,850
1985 386,850
1986 386,850
1987 386,850
1988 386,850
1989 386,850
1990 386,850
1991 386,850
1992 386,850
1993 386,850
1994 386,850
1995 386,850
1996 386,850
1997 386,850
1998 386,850
1999 386,850
2000 386,850
2001 386,850
2002 386,850
2003 386,850
2004 386,850
2005 386,850
2006 386,850
2007 386,850
2008 386,850
2009 386,850
2010 386,850
2011 386,850
2012 386,850
2013 386,850
2014 386,850
2015 386,850
2016 386,850
2017 386,850
2018 386,850
2019 386,850
2020 386,850
2021 386,850

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