Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Early-demographic dividend | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
1961 34260340
1962 34260340
1963 34260340
1964 34260340
1965 34260340
1966 34260340
1967 34260340
1968 34260340
1969 34260340
1970 34260340
1971 34260340
1972 34260340
1973 34260340
1974 34260340
1975 34260340
1976 34260340
1977 34260340
1978 34260340
1979 34260340
1980 34260340
1981 34260340
1982 34260340
1983 34260340
1984 34260340
1985 34260340
1986 34260340
1987 34260340
1988 34260340
1989 34260340
1990 34260340
1991 34260340
1992 34260360
1993 34142760
1994 34135837
1995 34135837
1996 34135837
1997 34135837
1998 34108647
1999 34108647
2000 34105350
2001 34105350
2002 34105350
2003 34105360
2004 34135630.254
2005 34135640.166
2006 34135639.98
2007 34135650.922
2008 34135660.263
2009 34136200.562
2010 34136203.873
2011 34136208.41
2012 34136211.783
2013 34136212.504
2014 34134105.143
2015 34141588.136
2016 34141587.676
2017 34145176.265
2018 34144806.696
2019 34243012.092
2020 34243010.624
2021 34243019.624
2022
Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source