Argentina vs Nigeria: Land use

Argentina
41.46 million hectares
in 2023
Nigeria
44.23 million hectares
in 2023
Argentina rank
8th
Nigeria rank
6th

Land use over time

  • Argentina
  • Nigeria
010.0M20.0M30.0M40.0M196119922023

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 44.23 million hectares against 41.46 million hectares in Argentina, a difference of 2.77 million hectares.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Argentina's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Nigeria ahead.

Argentina ranks 8th and Nigeria ranks 6th of 223 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Land use
Unit
hectares
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
225 places, 13,015 data points, 1961–2023
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