Low & middle income | 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
Low & middle income
Records
63
Source
Low & middle income | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
1961 95989473
1962 95989473
1963 95989473
1964 95989473
1965 95989473
1966 95989473
1967 95989473
1968 95989473
1969 95989473
1970 95989473
1971 95989473
1972 95989473
1973 95989473
1974 95989473
1975 95989473
1976 95989473
1977 95987353
1978 95987353
1979 95989393
1980 95989473
1981 95989473
1982 95989473
1983 95989473
1984 95989473
1985 95989473
1986 95989473
1987 95988133
1988 95988143
1989 95988143
1990 95988813
1991 95988843
1992 95988873
1993 95988963
1994 95982040
1995 95982040
1996 95982030
1997 95982020
1998 95954830
1999 95954830
2000 95949653
2001 95949657.2
2002 95949706.2
2003 95949715.7
2004 95984090.614
2005 95985986.969
2006 95985956.33
2007 95985923.399
2008 95985779.342
2009 95983250.862
2010 95983150.451
2011 95983399.029
2012 96002457.533
2013 96001843.412
2014 96000091.958
2015 96007569.541
2016 96007924.92
2017 96011410.283
2018 96010961.583
2019 96108953.198
2020 96104449.75
2021 96104642.001
2022
Low & middle income | 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
Low & middle income
Records
63
Source