Malawi - Area de tierra rural (kilómetros cuadrados)

Definición: Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Fuente: Centro para la Red Internacional de Información sobre Ciencias de la Tierra (CIESIN)/Universidad de Columbia. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, Nueva York: Centro de Datos y Aplicaciones Socioeconómicas (SEDAC) de la NASA. http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/lecz-urban-rural-population-land-area-estimates-v2.

Ver también:

Año Valor
1990 92,909
2000 92,909
2010 92,909

Clasificación

Tema: Indicadores tema Medio ambiente

Sub-tema: Uso del suelo