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Agricultural land — Area, per square kilometre by country

Agricultural land — Area divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
186
Highest
0.0929 1000 ha per square kilometre
Lesotho
Lowest
0.0004 1000 ha per square kilometre
Suriname
Median
0.0383 1000 ha per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
10,889

What the numbers show

Agricultural land — Area, per square kilometre is currently reported for 186 countries. The highest value is 0.0929 1000 ha per square kilometre in Lesotho; the lowest is 0.0004 1000 ha per square kilometre in Suriname.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0383 1000 ha per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0377 1000 ha per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 207.

Over the past decade 86 countries rose and 83 fell. The largest increase was in Tuvalu (up 44.4%), and the largest decrease in Bosnia and Herzegovina (down 48.5%).

Agricultural land — Area, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Lesotho 0.0929 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% flat
2 Uruguay 0.0876 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% falling
3 Tuvalu 0.0867 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 44.4% falling
4 Turkmenistan 0.0842 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% rising
5 Saudi Arabia 0.081 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% rising
6 Uganda 0.0803 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 4.1% rising
7 Comoros 0.0795 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
8 South Africa 0.0794 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
9 Kazakhstan 0.0792 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% flat
10 Nigeria 0.0771 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 5.8% rising
11 Burundi 0.0765 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
12 Gambia 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% rising
13 Djibouti 0.0735 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% rising
14 Guinea 0.0731 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
15 Rwanda 0.0725 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% rising
16 Bangladesh 0.0723 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% falling
17 Ukraine 0.0713 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.5% flat
18 Madagascar 0.0704 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% rising
19 Somalia 0.0703 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% flat
20 Faroe Islands 0.0701 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% flat
21 Eswatini 0.0696 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% falling
22 Isle of Man 0.0691 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 5.4% rising
23 Togo 0.069 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% rising
24 Mongolia 0.069 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
25 Morocco 0.0672 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% rising
26 Lebanon 0.0661 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
27 Denmark 0.0655 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% falling
28 Haiti 0.0651 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 10.4% rising
29 Malawi 0.065 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 9.8% rising
30 Palestine 0.0649 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% falling
31 Eritrea 0.0626 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% falling
32 Burkina Faso 0.0626 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 7.3% rising
33 Tunisia 0.0621 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 3.0% rising
34 Cuba 0.0617 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.3% rising
35 Ireland 0.0608 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 6.4% falling
36 Sudan 0.0603 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% flat
37 India 0.0601 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% flat
38 Armenia 0.0586 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% rising
39 Afghanistan 0.0584 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.5% flat
40 Uzbekistan 0.0584 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% falling
41 Azerbaijan 0.0578 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% rising
42 El Salvador 0.0574 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 2.4% flat
43 Mozambique 0.0561 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
44 Hungary 0.0557 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% falling
45 Ghana 0.0554 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% rising
46 Romania 0.0553 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% falling
47 Sierra Leone 0.0547 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% rising
48 Paraguay 0.0541 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 9.8% rising
49 Kyrgyzstan 0.054 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 1.9% flat
50 France 0.0529 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 1.0% falling
51 Luxembourg 0.0517 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% flat
52 Mexico 0.0507 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% flat
53 Dominican Republic 0.0504 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% flat
54 Kenya 0.0499 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
55 North Macedonia 0.0496 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% flat
56 Spain 0.0496 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% falling
57 Senegal 0.0494 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 6.1% flat
58 Sri Lanka 0.0486 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
59 Tonga 0.0485 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
60 Zimbabwe 0.0481 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% rising
61 Poland 0.0476 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% falling
62 Germany 0.0475 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.8% falling
63 Australia 0.0473 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% falling
64 Namibia 0.0471 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% flat
65 Pakistan 0.0467 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.8% flat
66 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0461 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
67 Bulgaria 0.0461 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% falling
68 Guatemala 0.046 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% rising
69 Lithuania 0.0459 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.5% falling
70 Czechia 0.0458 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% falling
71 Botswana 0.0456 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% flat
72 South Sudan 0.0447 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% flat
73 Yemen 0.0444 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% flat
74 Belgium 0.0444 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% flat
75 Thailand 0.0433 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 3.2% rising
76 San Marino 0.0432 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% falling
77 Benin 0.0427 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% rising
78 Philippines 0.0426 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
79 Nicaragua 0.0423 1000 ha per square kilometre 2022 up 0.4% rising
80 Kiribati 0.042 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
81 Portugal 0.0418 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 3.1% falling
82 China 0.0418 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 5.0% flat
83 Italy 0.0415 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% falling
84 Albania 0.0412 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 4.9% flat
85 Marshall Islands 0.0411 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 8.9% falling
86 Mauritius 0.0409 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 3.6% falling
87 Serbia 0.0404 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% flat
88 Chad 0.04 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.6% rising
89 Andorra 0.0399 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% falling
90 Belarus 0.0396 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% falling
91 Jamaica 0.039 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% falling
92 Greece 0.0389 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 29.9% falling
93 Mauritania 0.0385 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
94 British Virgin Islands 0.038 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 18.3% rising
95 Slovakia 0.038 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 3.6% falling
96 Switzerland 0.0378 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 2.1% falling
97 New Zealand 0.0369 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% falling
98 Niger 0.0368 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
99 Colombia 0.0365 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 9.7% flat
100 Angola 0.0363 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% flat
101 Cambodia 0.0347 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 10.3% rising
102 Mali 0.0342 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
103 Ethiopia 0.0341 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 4.8% rising
104 Georgia 0.034 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 4.3% falling
105 Dominica 0.0327 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
106 Liechtenstein 0.0323 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% falling
107 Zambia 0.0321 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% rising
108 Latvia 0.0317 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% flat
109 Congo 0.0312 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% flat
110 Austria 0.0311 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 5.4% falling
111 Costa Rica 0.0311 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 11.8% falling
112 Guinea-Bissau 0.0304 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 9.6% rising
113 Slovenia 0.0304 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% rising
114 Guam 0.0296 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% flat
115 Argentina 0.0294 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 34.5% falling
116 Indonesia 0.0289 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
117 Brazil 0.0283 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.3% rising
118 Honduras 0.0282 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% flat
119 Tajikistan 0.0279 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 5.6% falling
120 Croatia 0.0266 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 5.2% falling
121 Nepal 0.0261 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 7.7% rising
122 Malta 0.0259 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 19.0% falling
123 Malaysia 0.025 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
124 Israel 0.0248 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 3.2% rising
125 Panama 0.0236 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 19.7% rising
126 Grenada 0.0235 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
127 Barbados 0.0233 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 20.0% falling
128 Estonia 0.0231 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% falling
129 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0231 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
130 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0217 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 48.5% falling
131 Iraq 0.0216 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% flat
132 Ecuador 0.0215 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 28.8% rising
133 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0211 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
134 Cameroon 0.0209 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% rising
135 Liberia 0.0201 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 10.1% rising
136 Myanmar 0.0199 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% rising
137 Maldives 0.0198 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% rising
138 Montenegro 0.0196 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 18.1% falling
139 Puerto Rico 0.0193 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 10.7% falling
140 Peru 0.0191 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% rising
141 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0179 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
142 Samoa 0.0176 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 19.9% falling
143 Algeria 0.0174 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% falling
144 Fiji 0.0171 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 8.0% rising
145 Saint Lucia 0.0163 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
146 Iceland 0.0162 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 13.0% falling
147 Chile 0.0144 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 21.9% falling
148 Bhutan 0.0138 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 1.4% rising
149 Cyprus 0.0135 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 14.9% volatile
150 American Samoa 0.0135 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 32.6% falling
151 Vanuatu 0.0133 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
152 Japan 0.0126 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
153 Jordan 0.0116 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% falling
154 Cayman Islands 0.0112 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
155 Aruba 0.0111 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
156 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0105 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
157 Bahrain 0.0103 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 7.1% falling
158 New Caledonia 0.01 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% falling
159 United States Virgin Islands 0.0094 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 20.3% falling
160 Palau 0.0093 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
161 Central African Republic 0.0091 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 15.7% rising
162 Libya 0.0087 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% rising
163 Kuwait 0.0084 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% rising
164 French Polynesia 0.0083 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 12.3% falling
165 Belize 0.008 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% rising
166 Finland 0.0075 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.3% falling
167 Sweden 0.0073 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% falling
168 Gabon 0.0069 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 1.3% rising
169 Canada 0.0065 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.3% falling
170 Qatar 0.0064 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
171 United Arab Emirates 0.0056 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
172 Bermuda 0.0056 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
173 Oman 0.0048 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
174 Egypt 0.0041 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 10.4% rising
175 Solomon Islands 0.004 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
176 Equatorial Guinea 0.0034 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 2.4% falling
177 Guyana 0.0034 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 6.5% falling
178 Seychelles 0.0034 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% falling
179 Papua New Guinea 0.0031 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 9.3% rising
180 Norway 0.0027 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% rising
181 Northern Mariana Islands 0.0023 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 38.6% falling
182 Bahamas 0.0013 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
183 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0011 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
184 Singapore 0.0009 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 3.0% volatile
185 Greenland 0.0006 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% falling
186 Suriname 0.0004 1000 ha per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% rising

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Agricultural land — Area divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Agricultural land — Area ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Agricultural land — Area, per square kilometre
Unit
1000 ha per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
189 places, 10,889 data points, 1961–2023
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Agricultural land — Area divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.