Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 19,357,330 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19,989,140 in 2010 and a minimum value of 19,357,310 in 2017.

Definition: Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

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Year Value
1961 19,960,830
1962 19,960,830
1963 19,960,830
1964 19,960,830
1965 19,960,830
1966 19,960,830
1967 19,960,830
1968 19,960,830
1969 19,960,830
1970 19,960,830
1971 19,960,830
1972 19,960,830
1973 19,960,830
1974 19,960,430
1975 19,960,170
1976 19,960,170
1977 19,960,170
1978 19,960,170
1979 19,960,170
1980 19,960,170
1981 19,960,170
1982 19,960,170
1983 19,960,170
1984 19,960,170
1985 19,960,170
1986 19,960,170
1987 19,960,170
1988 19,960,170
1989 19,960,170
1990 19,960,170
1991 19,960,170
1992 19,960,170
1993 19,859,170
1994 19,859,170
1995 19,859,170
1996 19,859,170
1997 19,859,170
1998 19,859,170
1999 19,859,170
2000 19,859,170
2001 19,859,170
2002 19,859,170
2003 19,859,170
2004 19,988,440
2005 19,988,490
2006 19,988,490
2007 19,988,460
2008 19,988,450
2009 19,988,450
2010 19,989,140
2011 19,357,370
2012 19,357,380
2013 19,357,380
2014 19,357,370
2015 19,357,420
2016 19,357,340
2017 19,357,310
2018 19,357,330
2019 19,357,330
2020 19,357,330
2021 19,357,330

Rural land area (sq. km)

Definition: 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.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 13,878,030
2000 13,878,030
2010 13,878,030

Urban land area (sq. km)

Definition: Urban land area in square kilometers, 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.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

See also:

Year Value
1990 66,417
2000 66,417
2010 66,417

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use