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
Middle income
Records
63
Source
Middle income | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
81015793 1961
81015793 1962
81015793 1963
81015793 1964
81015793 1965
81015793 1966
81015793 1967
81015793 1968
81015793 1969
81015793 1970
81015793 1971
81015793 1972
81015793 1973
81015793 1974
81015793 1975
81015793 1976
81013673 1977
81013673 1978
81015713 1979
81015793 1980
81015793 1981
81015793 1982
81015793 1983
81015793 1984
81015793 1985
81015793 1986
81014453 1987
81014463 1988
81014463 1989
81015133 1990
81015163 1991
81015193 1992
81015283 1993
81008360 1994
81008360 1995
81008350 1996
81008340 1997
80981150 1998
80981150 1999
80975973 2000
80975977.2 2001
80976026.2 2002
80976035.7 2003
80974376.5 2004
80976273.8 2005
80976273.4 2006
80976272.8 2007
80976111.8 2008
80973571 2009
80973476 2010
80973446 2011
80973438 2012
80972856 2013
80971118 2014
80978542 2015
80978910 2016
80982401 2017
80981946.2 2018
81079934.08 2019
81075471.879 2020
81075664.13 2021
2022
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
Middle income
Records
63
Source