Botswana vs Eswatini: Land use

Botswana
262,000 hectares
in 2023
Eswatini
195,000 hectares
in 2023
Botswana rank
142nd
Eswatini rank
144th

Land use over time

  • Botswana
  • Eswatini
100.0k200.0k300.0k400.0k196119922023

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 262,000 hectares against 195,000 hectares in Eswatini, a difference of 67,000 hectares.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.3 times Eswatini's.

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

Botswana ranks 142nd and Eswatini ranks 144th 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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