environmental2023

Agricultural land (% of land area)

Name: Agricultural land (% of land area)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, agriculture-land-food-systems, agricultural, land, area

Compare agricultural land (% of land area) across 209 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2023.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•209 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

37.2%

Median: 38.0%

Countries Covered

209

with available data

Highest

Cote d'Ivoire

86.5%

Lowest

Suriname

0.4%

Top 5 Countries

1Cote d'Ivoire86.5%

2Turkmenistan84.2%

3Burundi83.9%

4Uruguay81.4%

5Saudi Arabia80.8%

By Region

Africa46.6%(9 countries)

Oceania42.1%(2 countries)

Europe40.6%(32 countries)

North America36.6%(4 countries)

Other36.0%(129 countries)

Key Findings

•209 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Cote d'Ivoire has the highest published value (86.4758 %).
•Suriname has the lowest published value (0.445038 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.4%)High (86.5%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 37.2%)

Africa (9)

Oceania (2)

Europe (32)

North America (4)

Other (129)

Asia (26)

South America (7)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Agricultural land refers to the share of land area that is arable, under permanent crops, and under permanent pastures. Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded. Land under permanent crops is land cultivated with crops that occupy the land for long periods and need not be replanted after each harvest, such as cocoa, coffee, and rubber. This category includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber. Permanent pasture is land used for five or more years for forage, including natural and cultivated crops.

Values use one fixed 2023 reference year from World Development Indicators series AG.LND.AGRI.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Agricultural land refers to the share of land area that is arable, under permanent crops, and under permanent pastures. Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded. Land under permanent crops is land cultivated with crops that occupy the land for long periods and need not be replanted after each harvest, such as cocoa, coffee, and rubber. This category includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber. Permanent pasture is land used for five or more years for forage, including natural and cultivated crops.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Cote d'Ivoire	86.5%
2	Turkmenistan	84.2%
3	Burundi	83.9%
4	Uruguay	81.4%
5	Saudi Arabia	80.8%
6	South Africa	79.4%
7	Kazakhstan	79.4%
8	Lesotho	77.8%
9	Rwanda	76.3%
10	Nigeria	76.2%
11	Moldova, Republic of	74.1%
12	Syrian Arab Republic	74.1%
13	Djibouti	73.5%
14	Guinea	73.2%
15	Bangladesh	72.3%
16	Uganda	71.9%
17	Comoros	71.5%
18	Ukraine	71.3%
19	Somalia	70.3%
20	United Kingdom	70.3%
21	Madagascar	70.3%
22	Togo	70.2%
23	Faroe Islands	70.1%
24	Eswatini	69.5%
25	Isle of Man	69.1%
26	Mongolia	69.0%
27	Morocco	66.7%
28	Lebanon	65.9%
29	Denmark	65.5%
30	Haiti	65.1%
31	State of Palestine	64.9%
32	Malawi	64.2%
33	Eritrea	62.7%
34	Republic of The Gambia	62.6%
35	Tunisia	62.4%
36	Cuba	61.7%
37	Ireland	60.8%
38	Sudan	60.3%
39	India	60.1%
40	Tuvalu	60.0%
41	Armenia	58.6%
42	Afghanistan	58.4%
43	Uzbekistan	58.1%
44	Azerbaijan	57.8%
45	El Salvador	57.7%
46	Hungary	55.7%
47	People's Republic of China	55.4%
48	Ghana	55.4%
49	Dominican Republic	55.4%
50	Romania	55.3%
51	Sierra Leone	54.7%
52	Paraguay	54.1%
53	Kyrgyzstan	54.0%
54	Netherlands	53.5%
55	Burkina Faso	53.4%
56	Mozambique	52.8%
57	France	52.5%
58	Luxembourg	51.7%
59	Mexico	50.7%
60	Türkiye	50.1%
61	The Republic of North Macedonia	49.6%
62	Spain	49.6%
63	Kenya	49.5%
64	Senegal	49.4%
65	Tonga	48.6%
66	Sri Lanka	48.6%
67	Poland	47.6%
68	Germany	47.5%
69	Australia	47.2%
70	Namibia	47.1%
71	Pakistan	46.7%
72	Virgin Islands, British	46.7%
73	Bulgaria	46.1%
74	United States of America	46.1%
75	Lithuania	45.9%
76	Czech Republic	45.8%
77	Botswana	45.6%
78	South Sudan	44.9%
79	Sao Tome and Principe	44.8%
80	United Republic of Tanzania	44.6%
81	Yemen	44.4%
82	Belgium	44.4%
83	Italy	44.3%
84	Thailand	43.8%
85	Portugal	43.3%
86	Mauritius	43.0%
87	Guatemala	43.0%
88	Philippines	42.7%
89	Argentina	42.4%
90	Nicaragua	42.3%
91	Kiribati	42.0%
92	Benin	41.8%
93	Zimbabwe	41.8%
94	Greece	41.7%
95	Serbia	40.4%
96	Chad	40.0%
97	Andorra	39.9%
98	Belarus	39.6%
99	Vietnam	39.2%
100	Marshall Islands	38.9%
101	Mauritania	38.5%
102	Jamaica	38.5%
103	San Marino	38.3%
104	Albania	38.1%
105	Slovakia	38.0%
106	Switzerland	37.8%
107	Angola	36.9%
108	New Zealand	36.9%
109	Niger	36.8%
110	Colombia	36.5%
111	Bolivia	35.8%
112	Mali	35.5%
113	Cambodia	34.9%
114	Georgia	34.1%
115	Ethiopia	34.1%
116	Dominica	33.3%
117	Costa Rica	33.1%
118	Liechtenstein	32.3%
119	Zambia	32.1%
120	Honduras	32.0%
121	Latvia	31.7%
122	Austria	31.5%
123	Republic of the Congo	31.2%
124	Slovenia	30.4%
125	Guinea-Bissau	29.9%
126	Guam	29.6%
127	Panama	29.5%
128	Indonesia	29.1%
129	Islamic Republic of Iran	29.0%
130	Brazil	28.3%
131	Tajikistan	27.9%
132	Croatia	26.6%
133	Nepal	26.1%
134	Malaysia	26.1%
135	Malta	25.9%
136	Israel	24.8%
137	Venezuela	24.4%
138	Grenada	23.5%
139	Barbados	23.3%
140	Estonia	23.1%
141	Saint Kitts and Nevis	23.1%
142	Timor-Leste	23.0%
143	Iraq	21.8%
144	Bosnia and Herzegovina	21.7%
145	North Korea	21.6%
146	Ecuador	21.5%
147	Cameroon	20.9%
148	Antigua and Barbuda	20.5%
149	Nauru	20.0%
150	Liberia	20.0%
151	Myanmar	19.9%
152	Maldives	19.8%
153	Cape Verde	19.6%
154	Montenegro	19.6%
155	Peru	19.1%
156	Puerto Rico	19.0%
157	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	17.9%
158	Samoa	17.6%
159	Algeria	17.4%
160	Fiji	17.1%
161	Saint Lucia	16.3%
162	Iceland	16.2%
163	South Korea	16.1%
164	Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.5%
165	Vanuatu	15.3%
166	American Samoa	14.8%
167	Chile	14.4%
168	Cyprus	14.0%
169	Bhutan	13.8%
170	Russian Federation	13.2%
171	Japan	12.6%
172	Jordan	11.5%
173	Cayman Islands	11.3%
174	Aruba	11.1%
175	Trinidad and Tobago	10.5%
176	Bahrain	10.1%
177	New Caledonia	10.1%
178	Lao People's Democratic Republic	9.9%
179	Virgin Islands, U.S.	9.4%
180	Palau	9.3%
181	Central African Republic	9.1%
182	Libya	8.7%
183	French Polynesia	8.7%
184	Kuwait	8.4%
185	Gabon	8.4%
186	Belize	8.0%
187	Finland	7.4%
188	Sweden	7.3%
189	Micronesia, Federated States of	7.1%
190	Canada	6.5%
191	Qatar	6.4%
192	Bermuda	5.6%
193	United Arab Emirates	5.5%
194	Oman	4.8%
195	Egypt	4.1%
196	Solomon Islands	3.9%
197	Hong Kong	3.8%
198	Equatorial Guinea	3.7%
199	Guyana	3.4%
200	Seychelles	3.4%
201	Papua New Guinea	3.1%
202	Norway	2.7%
203	Brunei Darussalam	2.5%
204	Bahamas	1.3%
205	Northern Mariana Islands	1.2%
206	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.1%
207	Singapore	0.9%
208	Greenland	0.6%
209	Suriname	0.4%

Showing 209 of 209 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2023).

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