.png "Philippines Land area (sq. km)")
| Data: | Land area (sq. km) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | AG.LND.TOTL.K2 | ||||||||
| Topic: | Environment: Land use | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long 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. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Sum | ||||||||
| 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. |
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| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | Total land area does not include 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. | ||||||||
| Development relevance: | Land 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, land 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. |
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