Madagascar vs Zambia: Land use

Madagascar
3.60 million hectares
in 2023
Zambia
3.84 million hectares
in 2023
Madagascar rank
70th
Zambia rank
67th

Land use over time

  • Madagascar
  • Zambia
01.0M2.0M3.0M4.0M196119922023

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 3.84 million hectares against 3.60 million hectares in Madagascar, a difference of 239,000 hectares.

That makes Zambia's figure about 1.1 times Madagascar's.

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

Madagascar ranks 70th and Zambia ranks 67th 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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