Evolution of historical total rural land area in South America

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This line chart displays rural land area (km²) by date using the aggregation sum. The data is from our countries entity and is filtered where the region is South America.

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There are 2 fields used on this chart (including filters):
  • Rural Land Area: 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. This field is expressed in km².
  • Date: Year period during which the metrics are collected. This field is expressed in year.

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This chart is based on data from: World Bank

Updated: 30 days ago

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