Lower 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source
Lower middle income | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
1961 24791131
1962 24791131
1963 24791131
1964 24791131
1965 24791131
1966 24791131
1967 24791131
1968 24791131
1969 24791131
1970 24791131
1971 24791131
1972 24791131
1973 24791131
1974 24791131
1975 24791131
1976 24791131
1977 24789011
1978 24789011
1979 24791051
1980 24791131
1981 24791131
1982 24791131
1983 24791131
1984 24791131
1985 24791131
1986 24791131
1987 24789791
1988 24789801
1989 24789801
1990 24790471
1991 24790501
1992 24790531
1993 24790541
1994 24783618
1995 24783618
1996 24783618
1997 24783618
1998 24783618
1999 24783618
2000 24778451
2001 24778461
2002 24778511
2003 24778521
2004 24776842
2005 24778740
2006 24778740
2007 24778740
2008 24778579
2009 24779118
2010 24779021
2011 24779024
2012 24779018
2013 24779027
2014 24777293
2015 24782119
2016 24782120
2017 24782463
2018 24782062
2019 24782119
2020 24782149.749
2021 24782149
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Lower 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source