environmental2023

Arable land (% of land area)

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

Compare arable land (% of land area) across 206 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2023.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•206 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

13.9%

Median: 10.0%

Countries Covered

206

with available data

Highest

Bangladesh

60.6%

Lowest

Faroe Islands

0.1%

Top 5 Countries

1Bangladesh60.6%

2Denmark59.1%

3Ukraine56.8%

4Moldova, Republic of56.8%

5India51.8%

By Region

Europe23.8%(32 countries)

Asia14.5%(26 countries)

Africa13.7%(9 countries)

Other12.0%(126 countries)

North America11.4%(4 countries)

Key Findings

•206 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Bangladesh has the highest published value (60.6278 %).
•Faroe Islands has the lowest published value (0.0510949 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.1%)High (60.6%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 13.9%)

Europe (32)

Asia (26)

Africa (9)

Other (126)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Oceania (2)

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

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.

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

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Bangladesh	60.6%
2	Denmark	59.1%
3	Ukraine	56.8%
4	Moldova, Republic of	56.8%
5	India	51.8%
6	Burundi	51.4%
7	Togo	48.7%
8	Rwanda	47.0%
9	Hungary	45.4%
10	Republic of The Gambia	43.5%
11	Malawi	42.4%
12	Isle of Man	41.1%
13	Nigeria	40.5%
14	Pakistan	39.3%
15	Mauritius	37.6%
16	Lithuania	36.8%
17	Poland	36.6%
18	Romania	36.5%
19	Haiti	36.5%
20	Comoros	34.9%
21	El Salvador	34.8%
22	Uganda	34.4%
23	Germany	33.4%
24	San Marino	33.1%
25	Czech Republic	32.7%
26	Bulgaria	32.1%
27	Benin	31.4%
28	France	31.4%
29	Thailand	31.0%
30	Serbia	31.0%
31	Netherlands	30.0%
32	Burkina Faso	28.9%
33	Belgium	28.3%
34	Cuba	28.0%
35	Tonga	27.8%
36	Belarus	27.4%
37	Slovakia	27.2%
38	Türkiye	26.3%
39	Azerbaijan	25.3%
40	United Kingdom	25.0%
41	Guinea	24.4%
42	Syrian Arab Republic	24.0%
43	Italy	24.0%
44	Luxembourg	23.8%
45	Cambodia	23.3%
46	Spain	23.0%
47	Malta	22.8%
48	Sri Lanka	22.2%
49	Sierra Leone	21.9%
50	Latvia	21.9%
51	Albania	21.6%
52	Vietnam	21.5%
53	Ghana	20.7%
54	Dominican Republic	20.2%
55	Senegal	19.9%
56	Saint Kitts and Nevis	19.2%
57	North Korea	19.1%
58	Philippines	18.7%
59	Tunisia	18.2%
60	Myanmar	16.9%
61	Estonia	16.6%
62	United States of America	16.6%
63	The Republic of North Macedonia	16.5%
64	Barbados	16.3%
65	Austria	16.0%
66	Armenia	15.7%
67	Croatia	15.5%
68	Morocco	15.4%
69	United Republic of Tanzania	15.2%
70	Cote d'Ivoire	15.1%
71	South Korea	14.9%
72	Argentina	14.8%
73	Ethiopia	14.5%
74	Guatemala	14.5%
75	Greece	14.4%
76	Guinea-Bissau	14.1%
77	Niger	14.0%
78	Maldives	13.4%
79	Lebanon	13.1%
80	Cameroon	13.1%
81	Nepal	12.6%
82	Uruguay	12.6%
83	Israel	12.5%
84	Nicaragua	12.5%
85	Cape Verde	12.4%
86	Afghanistan	12.0%
87	Lesotho	11.8%
88	People's Republic of China	11.5%
89	Paraguay	11.5%
90	Iraq	11.4%
91	Kenya	11.4%
92	Sudan	11.2%
93	Aruba	11.1%
94	Japan	11.1%
95	Jamaica	11.1%
96	Kazakhstan	11.0%
97	Liechtenstein	10.8%
98	Cyprus	10.6%
99	Zimbabwe	10.4%
100	Mexico	10.3%
101	Eswatini	10.3%
102	Portugal	10.1%
103	Switzerland	10.0%
104	South Africa	9.9%
105	Islamic Republic of Iran	9.7%
106	Indonesia	9.4%
107	Uzbekistan	9.1%
108	Honduras	9.1%
109	Antigua and Barbuda	9.1%
110	Slovenia	8.9%
111	Grenada	8.8%
112	Dominica	8.0%
113	Panama	7.6%
114	Timor-Leste	7.5%
115	Russian Federation	7.4%
116	Finland	7.4%
117	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.2%
118	Mozambique	7.2%
119	State of Palestine	7.0%
120	Mali	6.8%
121	Kyrgyzstan	6.7%
122	Virgin Islands, British	6.7%
123	Brazil	6.7%
124	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.6%
125	Ireland	6.4%
126	Sweden	6.2%
127	Tajikistan	6.1%
128	Eritrea	5.7%
129	Puerto Rico	5.7%
130	Bermuda	5.6%
131	Lao People's Democratic Republic	5.3%
132	Liberia	5.2%
133	Madagascar	5.2%
134	American Samoa	5.2%
135	Bolivia	5.1%
136	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	5.1%
137	Zambia	5.1%
138	Trinidad and Tobago	4.9%
139	Belize	4.4%
140	Saint Lucia	4.4%
141	Georgia	4.4%
142	Canada	4.3%
143	Angola	4.3%
144	Chad	4.2%
145	Fiji	4.2%
146	Sao Tome and Principe	4.2%
147	Ecuador	4.1%
148	Australia	4.0%
149	South Sudan	3.9%
150	Samoa	3.9%
151	Turkmenistan	3.4%
152	Costa Rica	3.3%
153	Algeria	3.2%
154	Egypt	3.1%
155	Peru	3.1%
156	Venezuela	2.9%
157	Central African Republic	2.9%
158	Micronesia, Federated States of	2.9%
159	Marshall Islands	2.8%
160	Bahrain	2.6%
161	Bhutan	2.6%
162	Virgin Islands, U.S.	2.6%
163	Kiribati	2.5%
164	Malaysia	2.4%
165	Colombia	2.3%
166	Jordan	2.3%
167	Norway	2.2%
168	Yemen	2.2%
169	New Zealand	2.0%
170	Hong Kong	1.9%
171	Chile	1.9%
172	Equatorial Guinea	1.9%
173	Guam	1.9%
174	Qatar	1.8%
175	Somalia	1.8%
176	Vanuatu	1.6%
177	Republic of the Congo	1.6%
178	Saudi Arabia	1.6%
179	Andorra	1.6%
180	Gabon	1.3%
181	Iceland	1.2%
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.1%
183	Libya	1.0%
184	Namibia	1.0%
185	Cayman Islands	0.8%
186	Solomon Islands	0.8%
187	Bahamas	0.8%
188	Singapore	0.8%
189	Brunei Darussalam	0.8%
190	Mongolia	0.7%
191	Papua New Guinea	0.7%
192	French Polynesia	0.7%
193	United Arab Emirates	0.7%
194	Montenegro	0.7%
195	Palau	0.7%
196	Guyana	0.5%
197	Botswana	0.5%
198	Kuwait	0.4%
199	Mauritania	0.4%
200	Suriname	0.3%
201	New Caledonia	0.3%
202	Seychelles	0.3%
203	Oman	0.3%
204	Northern Mariana Islands	0.2%
205	Djibouti	0.1%
206	Faroe Islands	0.1%

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Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #agriculture-land-food-systems #arable #land #area

Data Source

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

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