Egypt vs Malawi: Land use

Egypt
4.06 million hectares
in 2023
Malawi
4.20 million hectares
in 2023
Egypt rank
65th
Malawi rank
62nd

Land use over time

  • Egypt
  • Malawi
1.0M2.0M3.0M4.0M196119922023

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 4.20 million hectares against 4.06 million hectares in Egypt, a difference of 142,000 hectares.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Egypt ahead.

Egypt ranks 65th and Malawi ranks 62nd 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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