Upper 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
Upper middle income
Records
63
Source
Upper middle income | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
1961 56224662
1962 56224662
1963 56224662
1964 56224662
1965 56224662
1966 56224662
1967 56224662
1968 56224662
1969 56224662
1970 56224662
1971 56224662
1972 56224662
1973 56224662
1974 56224662
1975 56224662
1976 56224662
1977 56224662
1978 56224662
1979 56224662
1980 56224662
1981 56224662
1982 56224662
1983 56224662
1984 56224662
1985 56224662
1986 56224662
1987 56224662
1988 56224662
1989 56224662
1990 56224662
1991 56224662
1992 56224662
1993 56224742
1994 56224742
1995 56224742
1996 56224732
1997 56224722
1998 56197532
1999 56197532
2000 56197522
2001 56197516.2
2002 56197515.2
2003 56197514.7
2004 56197534.5
2005 56197533.8
2006 56197533.4
2007 56197532.8
2008 56197532.8
2009 56194453
2010 56194455
2011 56194422
2012 56194420
2013 56193829
2014 56193825
2015 56196423
2016 56196790
2017 56199938
2018 56199884.2
2019 56297815.08
2020 56293322.13
2021 56293515.13
2022

Upper 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
Upper middle income
Records
63
Source