Burkina Faso | Surface area (sq. km)
Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. Development relevance: Total surface 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, surface 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 includes 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. Including areas of former states; for example, the areas of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) are counted in Russian Federationand other successor states.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source
Burkina Faso | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
274220 1961
274220 1962
274220 1963
274220 1964
274220 1965
274220 1966
274220 1967
274220 1968
274220 1969
274220 1970
274220 1971
274220 1972
274220 1973
274220 1974
274220 1975
274220 1976
274220 1977
274220 1978
274220 1979
274220 1980
274220 1981
274220 1982
274220 1983
274220 1984
274220 1985
274220 1986
274220 1987
274220 1988
274220 1989
274220 1990
274220 1991
274220 1992
274220 1993
274220 1994
274220 1995
274220 1996
274220 1997
274220 1998
274220 1999
274220 2000
274220 2001
274220 2002
274220 2003
274220 2004
274220 2005
274220 2006
274220 2007
274220 2008
274220 2009
274220 2010
274220 2011
274220 2012
274220 2013
274220 2014
274220 2015
274220 2016
274220 2017
274220 2018
274220 2019
274220 2020
274220 2021
2022
Burkina Faso | Surface area (sq. km)
Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. Development relevance: Total surface 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, surface 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 includes 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. Including areas of former states; for example, the areas of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) are counted in Russian Federationand other successor states.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source