Late-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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Late-demographic dividend | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
45784979.9 1961
45784979.9 1962
45784979.9 1963
45784979.9 1964
45784979.9 1965
45784979.9 1966
45784979.9 1967
45784979.9 1968
45784979.9 1969
45784979.9 1970
45784979.9 1971
45784979.9 1972
45784979.9 1973
45784979.9 1974
45784979.9 1975
45784979.9 1976
45782859.9 1977
45782859.9 1978
45784899.9 1979
45784979.9 1980
45784979.9 1981
45784979.9 1982
45784979.9 1983
45784979.9 1984
45784979.9 1985
45784979.9 1986
45783639.9 1987
45783649.9 1988
45783649.9 1989
45784319.9 1990
45784349.9 1991
45784379.9 1992
45784479.9 1993
45784479.9 1994
45784479.9 1995
45784469.9 1996
45784459.9 1997
45784459.9 1998
45784459.9 1999
45782050.9 2000
45782055.1 2001
45782104.1 2002
45782113.6 2003
45782127.4 2004
45784024.7 2005
45784014.3 2006
45784013.7 2007
45783857.7 2008
45783861.9 2009
45783771.9 2010
45783740.9 2011
45783732.9 2012
45783458.9 2013
45783603.9 2014
45783552.9 2015
45784524.9 2016
45784428.9 2017
45784351.9 2018
45784137.9 2019
45779681.699 2020
45779851.95 2021
2022
Late-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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source