What is agriculture — area, per square kilometre in Gambia?

Agriculture — area, per square kilometre in Gambia was 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre in 2023, according to Statizoid (derived).

What is the highest agriculture — area, per square kilometre recorded in Gambia?

The highest recorded value was 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre in 2023.

What is the lowest agriculture — area, per square kilometre recorded in Gambia?

The lowest recorded value was 0.0327 1000 ha per square kilometre in 1961.

How does Gambia rank for agriculture — area, per square kilometre?

Gambia ranks 12th out of 186 countries with data for 2023.

Is agriculture — area, per square kilometre rising or falling in Gambia?

Over the last ten years it is up 21.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.

Where does this Gambia data come from?

The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre in Gambia

Name: Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre in Gambia
Creator: Statizoid (derived)
License: Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page

Gambia: Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre was 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre in 2023. ▲ Rising

Latest (2023)

0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre

Change on year

up 1.1%

World rank

12th

of 186 countries

All-time high

0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre

in 2023

All-time low

0.0327 1000 ha per square kilometre

in 1961

Years of data

1961–2023

Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre in Gambia, 1961–2023

Source: Statizoid (derived). Measured in 1000 ha per square kilometre.

Analysis

Gambia recorded 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre for agriculture — area, per square kilometre in 2023. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.1% on the previous year and up 21.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, agriculture — area, per square kilometre in Gambia peaked at 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre in 2023 and was at its lowest, 0.0327 1000 ha per square kilometre, in 1961.

Gambia ranks 12th of 186 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.

Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre in Gambia, year by year

Annual values for Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre in Gambia, 1961 to 2023.
Year	1000 ha per square kilometre	Change
1961	0.0327 1000 ha per square kilometre	—
1962	0.0328 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.3%
1963	0.0329 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.3%
1964	0.033 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.3%
1965	0.0331 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.4%
1966	0.0332 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.3%
1967	0.0334 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.6%
1968	0.0334 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.0%
1969	0.0336 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.6%
1970	0.0336 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.0%
1971	0.0339 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.9%
1972	0.0344 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.5%
1973	0.0349 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.4%
1974	0.0376 1000 ha per square kilometre	+7.8%
1975	0.037 1000 ha per square kilometre	-1.6%
1976	0.037 1000 ha per square kilometre	-0.1%
1977	0.0377 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.9%
1978	0.0383 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.7%
1979	0.0372 1000 ha per square kilometre	-2.8%
1980	0.0366 1000 ha per square kilometre	-1.8%
1981	0.0387 1000 ha per square kilometre	+5.9%
1982	0.0408 1000 ha per square kilometre	+5.3%
1983	0.0389 1000 ha per square kilometre	-4.6%
1984	0.0375 1000 ha per square kilometre	-3.6%
1985	0.0376 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.2%
1986	0.0384 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.1%
1987	0.0391 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.8%
1988	0.0406 1000 ha per square kilometre	+3.8%
1989	0.0388 1000 ha per square kilometre	-4.4%
1990	0.0394 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.5%
1991	0.0403 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.3%
1992	0.0369 1000 ha per square kilometre	-8.3%
1993	0.0368 1000 ha per square kilometre	-0.3%
1994	0.0387 1000 ha per square kilometre	+5.1%
1995	0.0382 1000 ha per square kilometre	-1.3%
1996	0.0391 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.4%
1997	0.0397 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.4%
1998	0.0405 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.2%
1999	0.0412 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.7%
2000	0.0419 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.6%
2001	0.0427 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.0%
2002	0.0437 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.3%
2003	0.0445 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.8%
2004	0.0448 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.7%
2005	0.0457 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.1%
2006	0.0467 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.0%
2007	0.0476 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.0%
2008	0.0546 1000 ha per square kilometre	+14.6%
2009	0.06 1000 ha per square kilometre	+9.9%
2010	0.0621 1000 ha per square kilometre	+3.5%
2011	0.0618 1000 ha per square kilometre	-0.4%
2012	0.0623 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.7%
2013	0.0628 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.8%
2014	0.063 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.4%
2015	0.0636 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.9%
2016	0.0641 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.8%
2017	0.0647 1000 ha per square kilometre	+0.9%
2018	0.0665 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.9%
2019	0.0684 1000 ha per square kilometre	+2.8%
2020	0.0706 1000 ha per square kilometre	+3.3%
2021	0.0729 1000 ha per square kilometre	+3.2%
2022	0.0752 1000 ha per square kilometre	+3.2%
2023	0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre	+1.1%

Gambia compared with similar countries

Gambia's 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.0573 1000 ha per square kilometre, 1.3× the median. (22 countries reporting)
Gambia's 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.0487 1000 ha per square kilometre, 1.6× the median. (44 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1960s	0.0331 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0327 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0336 1000 ha per square kilometre	9
1970s	0.0362 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0336 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0383 1000 ha per square kilometre	10
1980s	0.0387 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0366 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0408 1000 ha per square kilometre	10
1990s	0.0391 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0368 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0412 1000 ha per square kilometre	10
2000s	0.0472 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0419 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.06 1000 ha per square kilometre	10
2010s	0.0639 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0618 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0684 1000 ha per square kilometre	10
2020s	0.0737 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.0706 1000 ha per square kilometre	0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre	4

Countries ranked near Gambia

9 Kazakhstan 0.0792 1000 ha per square kilometre compare
10 Nigeria 0.0771 1000 ha per square kilometre compare
11 Burundi 0.0765 1000 ha per square kilometre compare
13 Djibouti 0.0735 1000 ha per square kilometre compare
14 Guinea 0.0731 1000 ha per square kilometre compare
15 Rwanda 0.0725 1000 ha per square kilometre compare

See the full ranking of 189 places →

More environment data for Gambia

Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -4.15 Percentage change (2025)
Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -4.18 Percentage change (2025)
Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
Standard Deviation 0.366 °C (2025)
Temperature change 1.36 °C (2025)
Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 0.0695 % change on previous year (2024)
Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
Methane (CH4) emissions from Power Industry (Energy) (Mt CO2e) 0 % change on previous year (2024)
Methane (CH4) emissions from Power Industry (Energy) (Mt CO2e), per 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)

All data for Gambia →

Frequently asked questions

What is agriculture — area, per square kilometre in Gambia?: Agriculture — area, per square kilometre in Gambia was 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre in 2023, according to Statizoid (derived).
What is the highest agriculture — area, per square kilometre recorded in Gambia?: The highest recorded value was 0.076 1000 ha per square kilometre in 2023.
What is the lowest agriculture — area, per square kilometre recorded in Gambia?: The lowest recorded value was 0.0327 1000 ha per square kilometre in 1961.
How does Gambia rank for agriculture — area, per square kilometre?: Gambia ranks 12th out of 186 countries with data for 2023.
Is agriculture — area, per square kilometre rising or falling in Gambia?: Over the last ten years it is up 21.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Gambia data come from?: The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 63 observations, free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page.

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre in Gambia. Statizoid, drawing on Statizoid (derived). Retrieved 21 September 2026, from https://environment.statizoid.com/stat/agriculture-area-per-square-kilometre/gambia-the/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page; please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://environment.statizoid.com/stat/agriculture-area-per-square-kilometre/gambia-the/">Agriculture — Area, per square kilometre in Gambia</a> — Statizoid

How this figure is calculated

Agriculture — 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.

Agriculture — Area ÷ Land area (sq. km)

Computed from

Agriculture — Area Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.

About this data

Indicator: Agriculture — 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
Last refreshed: 14 September 2026

Agriculture — 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.