Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological sustainability — Agricultural land by country

Name: Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological sustainability — Agricultural land
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Countries reporting

191

Highest

1.20 million Hectares

OECD

Lowest

0.4 Hectares

Nauru

Median

3,950 Hectares

Years covered

2000–2020

Data points

5,106

What the numbers show

Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological sustainability — Agricultural land is currently reported for 191 countries. The highest value is 1.20 million Hectares in OECD; the lowest is 0.4 Hectares in Nauru.

The median across all reporting countries is 3,950 Hectares, and the mean is 31,075 Hectares.

Over the past decade 84 countries rose and 84 fell. The largest increase was in San Marino (up 130.0%), and the largest decrease in Montenegro (down 49.6%).

Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	OECD	1.20 million Hectares	2020	down 2.4%	falling
2	China	528,508 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	flat
3	United States	405,810 Hectares	2020	down 0.3%	flat
4	Australia	355,775 Hectares	2020	down 5.5%	falling
5	Brazil	236,879 Hectares	2020	up 2.2%	flat
6	Russia	215,494 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
7	Kazakhstan	214,003 Hectares	2020	down 1.5%	flat
8	India	179,045 Hectares	2020	down 0.3%	flat
9	Saudi Arabia	173,596 Hectares	2020	up 0.1%	flat
10	Mongolia	112,700 Hectares	2020	down 1.3%	falling
11	Argentina	108,382 Hectares	2020	down 14.2%	falling
12	Mexico	97,138 Hectares	2020	down 4.6%	falling
13	South Africa	96,341 Hectares	2020	down 0.6%	flat
14	Nigeria	69,450 Hectares	2020	up 2.4%	flat
15	Sudan	69,406 Hectares	2020	down 49.4%	falling
16	Indonesia	62,300 Hectares	2020	up 12.1%	rising
16	Madagascar	40,895 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
17	Canada	57,743 Hectares	2020	down 0.9%	falling
17	Mauritania	39,661 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	flat
18	Angola	56,952 Hectares	2020	up 8.5%	rising
18	Ethiopia	38,476 Hectares	2020	up 7.8%	rising
19	Chad	50,238 Hectares	2020	up 2.0%	flat
20	Colombia	48,243 Hectares	2020	up 13.5%	rising
20	Lesotho	2,600 Hectares	2020	up 11.8%	flat
21	Iran	47,013 Hectares	2020	up 1.0%	falling
21	Moldova	2,265 Hectares	2020	down 8.1%	falling
22	Niger	46,597 Hectares	2020	up 5.9%	rising
23	Somalia	44,125 Hectares	2020	down 0.0%	flat
24	Mozambique	41,414 Hectares	2020	up 4.4%	rising
24	Croatia	1,505 Hectares	2020	up 12.8%	rising
25	Algeria	41,359 Hectares	2020	down 0.0%	flat
25	Eswatini	1,222 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
26	Ukraine	41,311 Hectares	2020	up 0.1%	flat
26	Fiji	311.6 Hectares	2020	down 2.4%	falling
27	Mali	41,201 Hectares	2020	up 0.4%	rising
27	Equatorial Guinea	188.52 Hectares	2020	down 2.6%	falling
28	Tanzania	39,521 Hectares	2020	up 5.7%	rising
28	Cabo Verde	79 Hectares	2020	up 1.3%	rising
29	Namibia	38,810 Hectares	2020	up 0.0%	flat
30	Afghanistan	38,356 Hectares	2020	up 1.2%	flat
31	Bolivia	37,787 Hectares	2020	up 0.7%	flat
32	Pakistan	36,723 Hectares	2020	up 4.2%	flat
33	Turkmenistan	33,838 Hectares	2020	down 0.5%	falling
34	Türkiye	37,762 Hectares	2020	down 3.2%	falling
34	Morocco	30,382 Hectares	2020	up 1.3%	flat
35	Democratic Republic of the Congo	33,572 Hectares	2020	up 18.1%	rising
35	France	28,554 Hectares	2020	down 1.3%	flat
36	South Sudan	28,251 Hectares	2020	down 0.9%	flat
37	Kenya	27,630 Hectares	2020	up 1.1%	flat
37	Poland	14,461 Hectares	2020	up 0.1%	falling
38	Spain	26,143 Hectares	2020	down 5.1%	falling
38	Syrian Arab Republic	13,921 Hectares	2020	up 0.1%	flat
39	Botswana	25,862 Hectares	2020	up 0.0%	flat
39	Viet Nam	12,360 Hectares	2020	up 14.9%	rising
40	Uzbekistan	25,682 Hectares	2020	up 0.3%	falling
40	Lithuania	2,943 Hectares	2020	up 6.2%	flat
41	Peru	24,478 Hectares	2020	down 1.3%	rising
41	Latvia	1,969 Hectares	2020	up 9.1%	rising
42	Zambia	23,836 Hectares	2020	up 1.7%	rising
42	Netherlands	1,814 Hectares	2020	down 3.1%	falling
43	Yemen	23,452 Hectares	2020	down 0.5%	flat
44	Thailand	23,010 Hectares	2020	up 9.3%	rising
44	Estonia	985 Hectares	2020	up 3.8%	rising
45	Venezuela	21,500 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
45	Slovenia	610.49 Hectares	2020	down 2.1%	rising
46	Côte d’Ivoire	21,200 Hectares	2020	up 2.9%	rising
46	Timor-Leste	341.4 Hectares	2020	up 1.0%	flat
47	United Kingdom	17,259 Hectares	2020	up 0.2%	flat
47	Micronesia	22 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
48	Paraguay	16,809 Hectares	2020	up 4.8%	rising
49	Germany	16,595 Hectares	2020	down 0.6%	flat
50	Zimbabwe	16,200 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
51	Chile	15,710 Hectares	2020	down 0.2%	flat
52	Libya	15,350 Hectares	2020	down 0.0%	flat
53	Guinea	14,500 Hectares	2020	up 1.4%	flat
54	Uganda	14,415 Hectares	2020	up 1.1%	rising
55	Uruguay	14,063 Hectares	2020	down 2.6%	falling
56	Romania	13,591 Hectares	2020	down 4.0%	falling
57	Myanmar	13,008 Hectares	2020	up 3.8%	rising
58	Italy	12,999 Hectares	2020	down 9.3%	falling
59	Philippines	12,675 Hectares	2020	up 4.8%	rising
60	Ghana	12,604 Hectares	2020	down 1.1%	flat
61	Burkina Faso	12,143 Hectares	2020	unchanged	rising
62	Congo	10,628 Hectares	2020	up 0.5%	flat
63	Kyrgyzstan	10,368 Hectares	2020	down 2.3%	flat
64	New Zealand	10,154 Hectares	2020	down 11.0%	falling
65	Bangladesh	9,901 Hectares	2020	up 7.1%	flat
66	Cameroon	9,750 Hectares	2020	up 0.5%	rising
67	Tunisia	9,731 Hectares	2020	down 3.1%	flat
68	Iraq	9,250 Hectares	2020	up 12.5%	rising
69	Senegal	8,878 Hectares	2020	down 6.1%	flat
70	Malaysia	8,571 Hectares	2020	up 16.0%	rising
71	Belarus	8,281 Hectares	2020	down 6.9%	falling
72	Eritrea	7,592 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
73	Cuba	6,401 Hectares	2020	down 0.9%	falling
74	Greece	5,867 Hectares	2020	down 21.7%	falling
75	Cambodia	5,789 Hectares	2020	up 6.1%	rising
76	Malawi	5,650 Hectares	2020	down 0.6%	rising
77	Ecuador	5,420 Hectares	2020	down 27.7%	falling
78	Central African Republic	5,080 Hectares	2020	down 0.7%	flat
79	Nicaragua	5,065 Hectares	2020	up 0.8%	flat
80	Bulgaria	5,047 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	falling
81	Tajikistan	4,916 Hectares	2020	up 3.4%	rising
82	Hungary	4,903 Hectares	2020	down 8.2%	falling
83	Azerbaijan	4,780 Hectares	2020	up 0.3%	flat
84	Ireland	4,512 Hectares	2020	down 1.2%	flat
85	Japan	4,372 Hectares	2020	down 4.8%	falling
86	Nepal	4,121 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	flat
87	Egypt	3,971 Hectares	2020	up 8.2%	rising
88	Benin	3,950 Hectares	2020	up 8.2%	rising
89	Sierra Leone	3,949 Hectares	2020	up 0.5%	rising
90	Portugal	3,873 Hectares	2020	up 6.0%	flat
91	Guatemala	3,856 Hectares	2020	down 2.7%	falling
92	Togo	3,820 Hectares	2020	up 4.2%	rising
93	Czechia	3,524 Hectares	2020	down 0.0%	falling
94	Honduras	3,511 Hectares	2020	up 7.4%	rising
95	Serbia	3,504 Hectares	2020	down 0.5%	falling
96	Sweden	3,006 Hectares	2020	down 2.2%	flat
97	Sri Lanka	2,812 Hectares	2020	up 7.3%	rising
98	Austria	2,647 Hectares	2020	down 4.8%	falling
99	Denmark	2,620 Hectares	2020	down 0.2%	flat
100	North Korea	2,590 Hectares	2020	down 3.4%	flat
101	Dominican Republic	2,429 Hectares	2020	up 1.3%	flat
102	Georgia	2,378 Hectares	2020	down 3.3%	falling
103	Finland	2,270 Hectares	2020	down 1.0%	flat
104	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,216 Hectares	2020	up 3.4%	flat
105	Gabon	2,213 Hectares	2020	up 4.5%	rising
106	Panama	2,174 Hectares	2020	down 4.1%	flat
107	Burundi	2,033 Hectares	2020	up 10.9%	rising
108	Laos	2,029 Hectares	2020	down 8.6%	rising
109	Liberia	1,954 Hectares	2020	up 14.1%	rising
110	Iceland	1,872 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	flat
111	Haiti	1,840 Hectares	2020	down 1.6%	rising
112	Rwanda	1,812 Hectares	2020	up 0.4%	flat
113	Costa Rica	1,762 Hectares	2020	down 3.2%	flat
114	Djibouti	1,702 Hectares	2020	up 0.0%	flat
115	Armenia	1,676 Hectares	2020	down 3.4%	rising
116	Switzerland	1,504 Hectares	2020	down 2.0%	flat
117	Oman	1,459 Hectares	2020	up 1.1%	rising
118	Belgium	1,365 Hectares	2020	up 0.7%	flat
119	North Macedonia	1,262 Hectares	2020	up 12.8%	flat
120	Guyana	1,241 Hectares	2020	up 6.5%	rising
121	El Salvador	1,196 Hectares	2020	down 5.7%	falling
122	Papua New Guinea	1,190 Hectares	2020	unchanged	rising
123	Albania	1,166 Hectares	2020	down 3.0%	rising
124	Jordan	1,029 Hectares	2020	up 2.7%	flat
125	Norway	985.96 Hectares	2020	down 2.0%	falling
126	Guinea-Bissau	815.11 Hectares	2020	up 9.0%	rising
127	Lebanon	669.67 Hectares	2020	up 4.6%	rising
128	Israel	646.4 Hectares	2020	up 28.1%	rising
129	Gambia	605 Hectares	2020	down 1.6%	rising
130	Bhutan	513 Hectares	2020	down 1.3%	falling
131	Jamaica	444 Hectares	2020	unchanged	falling
132	United Arab Emirates	389.8 Hectares	2020	down 0.6%	falling
133	Montenegro	257.95 Hectares	2020	down 49.6%	falling
134	Vanuatu	187 Hectares	2020	unchanged	rising
135	Belize	172 Hectares	2020	up 9.6%	rising
136	Kuwait	150 Hectares	2020	down 1.3%	flat
137	Cyprus	134.13 Hectares	2020	up 17.1%	falling
138	Luxembourg	132.14 Hectares	2020	up 0.8%	flat
139	Comoros	131 Hectares	2020	down 1.5%	flat
140	Solomon Islands	117 Hectares	2020	up 9.3%	rising
141	Mauritius	86 Hectares	2020	down 5.5%	falling
142	Suriname	84 Hectares	2020	up 7.3%	rising
143	Qatar	74 Hectares	2020	up 8.7%	rising
144	Trinidad and Tobago	54 Hectares	2020	unchanged	falling
145	Samoa	49.41 Hectares	2020	up 19.1%	rising
146	Sao Tome and Principe	44 Hectares	2020	down 4.3%	falling
147	Tonga	35 Hectares	2020	up 9.4%	rising
148	Kiribati	34 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
149	Dominica	25 Hectares	2020	unchanged	rising
150	Andorra	18.72 Hectares	2020	down 5.3%	falling
151	Bahamas	14 Hectares	2020	down 6.7%	rising
152	Brunei Darussalam	13.4 Hectares	2020	unchanged	rising
153	Malta	10.38 Hectares	2020	up 0.5%	rising
154	Barbados	10 Hectares	2020	down 33.3%	falling
155	Saint Lucia	9.94 Hectares	2020	unchanged	falling
156	Antigua and Barbuda	9 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
157	Bahrain	8.6 Hectares	2020	unchanged	falling
157	Marshall Islands	8.6 Hectares	2020	down 33.8%	falling
159	Grenada	8 Hectares	2020	unchanged	falling
160	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
161	Maldives	6.4 Hectares	2020	down 7.2%	falling
162	Saint Kitts and Nevis	6 Hectares	2020	up 5.3%	falling
163	Liechtenstein	5.32 Hectares	2020	down 7.2%	falling
164	Palau	4.3 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
165	San Marino	2.3 Hectares	2020	up 130.0%	rising
166	Tuvalu	1.8 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
167	Seychelles	1.55 Hectares	2020	down 35.4%	falling
168	Singapore	0.66 Hectares	2020	down 10.8%	falling
169	Nauru	0.4 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

World 4.74 million Hectares
Non-resource-rich countries 3.60 million Hectares
World outside Africa 3.62 million Hectares
World outside Africa, non-resource-rich countries 2.73 million Hectares
Upper-middle income countries (World Bank) 1.90 million Hectares
Resource-rich countries 1.14 million Hectares
World outside Africa, upper-middle income countries (World Bank) 1.72 million Hectares
Africa 1.12 million Hectares
High income countries 1.23 million Hectares
Least developed countries 784,808 Hectares
Asia (excluding high income countries) 1.23 million Hectares
Latin America and the Caribbean 656,727 Hectares
High income countries (excluding Latin American and Caribbean countries) 1.19 million Hectares
Southern African Development Community (SADC) 423,094 Hectares
Lower-middle income countries (World Bank) 1.02 million Hectares
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) 357,836 Hectares
World outside Africa, resource-rich countries 890,492 Hectares
Southern Africa (African Union) 308,887 Hectares
Africa, non-resource-rich countries 873,956 Hectares
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 241,745 Hectares
Land Locked Developing Countries 826,721 Hectares
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) 224,005 Hectares
Fragile states 781,327 Hectares
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) 172,510 Hectares
Africa, least developed countries 685,818 Hectares
ASEAN 139,756 Hectares
Africa, fragile states 589,940 Hectares
Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) 136,483 Hectares
World outside Africa, lower-middle income countries (World Bank) 572,808 Hectares
Central Africa (African Union) 113,746 Hectares
Low income countries (World Bank) 572,362 Hectares
MERCOSUR 530,596 Hectares
Community of Sahel–Saharan States (CEN–SAD) 517,081 Hectares
World outside Africa, landlocked developing countries 511,105 Hectares
Small Island Developing States 16,220 Hectares
Africa, low income countries (World Bank) 494,043 Hectares
Africa, lower-middle income countries (World Bank) 445,981 Hectares
Africa, land locked developing countries 315,616 Hectares
Slovak Republic 1,883 Hectares
East Africa (African Union) 314,043 Hectares

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Indicator: Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological sustainability — Agricultural land
Unit: Hectares
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence: OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage: 244 places, 5,106 data points, 2000–2020
Last refreshed: 18 August 2026

The Statistical Annex to the annual Africa's Development Dynamics (AFDD) report is a collection of development indicators that were gathered and analysed while conducting the research that went into the report. These data are also available online for free viewing or download at https://oe.cd/AFDD-2024, a bilingual website which links to the electronic version of the Africa's Development Dynamics book in both English and French. Table 23 shows indicators of ecological sustainability, in terms of land use. This includes number of hectars of land allocated to different kinds of use, carbon stock in living biomass, and fertiliser use, and wood production.