Land cover and land cover change — Loss of cropland by country
The land cover dataset provides a global assessment of land cover and land cover change to monitor pressures on ecosystems and biodiversity. By using geospatial data with high spatio-temporal resolution, it develops a set of internationally comparable indicators with a long time series and a five-year interval from...
Countries reporting
186
Highest
216,625 Square kilometres
OECD
Lowest
239.34 Square kilometres
Slovenia
Median
1,560 Square kilometres
Years covered
18
2005–2022
Data points
4,895
What the numbers show
Land cover and land cover change — Loss of cropland is currently reported for 186 countries. The highest value is 216,625 Square kilometres in OECD; the lowest is 239.34 Square kilometres in Slovenia.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,560 Square kilometres, and the mean is 7,283 Square kilometres.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 905.
Land cover and land cover change — Loss of cropland: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OECD | 216,625 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 61.4% | rising |
| 2 | China | 187,003 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 142.2% | rising |
| 3 | Brazil | 98,263 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 88.3% | rising |
| 4 | Russia | 75,712 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 56.1% | rising |
| 5 | India | 64,573 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 297.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Indonesia | 50,011 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 94.3% | rising |
| 7 | United States | 49,608 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 62.8% | rising |
| 8 | Tanzania | 23,226 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 59.4% | rising |
| 9 | Nigeria | 21,656 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 284.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Ukraine | 17,820 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 16.8% | rising |
| 11 | Malaysia | 14,209 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 54.4% | rising |
| 12 | Ethiopia | 20,612 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 174.1% | rising |
| 12 | Japan | 13,196 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 71.1% | rising |
| 13 | Kazakhstan | 12,517 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 39.9% | rising |
| 14 | France | 12,109 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 43.8% | rising |
| 15 | Spain | 11,583 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 72.2% | rising |
| 16 | Mongolia | 11,323 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 150.9% | rising |
| 17 | Angola | 11,315 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 16.2% | rising |
| 18 | Argentina | 10,973 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 194.6% | volatile |
| 19 | Colombia | 10,919 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 63.2% | rising |
| 20 | Myanmar | 10,312 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 496.2% | volatile |
| 21 | Papua New Guinea | 10,273 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 28.8% | rising |
| 22 | Congo | 10,152 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 45.4% | rising |
| 23 | Germany | 9,989 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 40.1% | rising |
| 24 | Venezuela | 9,533 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 111.0% | rising |
| 25 | Thailand | 9,447 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 353.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Australia | 9,334 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 53.0% | rising |
| 27 | Philippines | 9,297 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 28 | Canada | 8,874 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 74.4% | rising |
| 29 | Bolivia | 7,872 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 38.5% | rising |
| 30 | Romania | 7,448 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 25.7% | rising |
| 30 | Mauritania | 2,241 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 48.5% | rising |
| 31 | Belarus | 7,400 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 88.6% | rising |
| 32 | Ghana | 7,375 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 233.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Pakistan | 7,150 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 123.6% | rising |
| 34 | Kenya | 6,561 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 398.4% | volatile |
| 35 | Mozambique | 6,559 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 57.9% | rising |
| 35 | Croatia | 1,321 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 28.0% | rising |
| 36 | Uzbekistan | 6,378 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 119.6% | rising |
| 37 | Italy | 6,063 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 60.1% | rising |
| 38 | Zimbabwe | 5,452 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 81.3% | rising |
| 39 | Ecuador | 5,441 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 130.5% | volatile |
| 40 | Uruguay | 5,194 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 41 | Zambia | 5,184 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 66.3% | rising |
| 41 | Moldova | 986.12 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 42 | Benin | 4,937 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 957.8% | volatile |
| 43 | Afghanistan | 4,648 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 29.0% | rising |
| 44 | Cameroon | 4,422 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 229.7% | volatile |
| 45 | Iran | 4,421 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 118.1% | rising |
| 46 | Honduras | 4,379 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 53.8% | rising |
| 46 | Equatorial Guinea | 352.9 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 149.9% | volatile |
| 47 | Côte d’Ivoire | 4,314 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 372.9% | volatile |
| 48 | Chad | 4,281 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 118.1% | rising |
| 49 | Chile | 4,244 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 25.0% | rising |
| 50 | Portugal | 4,220 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 73.9% | rising |
| 51 | Uganda | 4,098 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 160.9% | rising |
| 52 | Guinea | 4,084 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 232.9% | volatile |
| 52 | Eswatini | 170.28 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 58.7% | rising |
| 53 | United Kingdom | 3,953 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 38.2% | rising |
| 53 | Lesotho | 144.62 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 513.6% | volatile |
| 54 | Mali | 3,887 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 253.3% | volatile |
| 55 | Bulgaria | 3,858 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 39.0% | rising |
| 56 | Algeria | 3,715 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 52.9% | rising |
| 57 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 27,282 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 57 | Peru | 3,511 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 83.3% | rising |
| 57 | Cabo Verde | 4.89 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 510.4% | volatile |
| 58 | Bangladesh | 3,212 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 302.6% | volatile |
| 59 | South Africa | 3,204 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 69.0% | rising |
| 60 | Türkiye | 21,809 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 91.2% | rising |
| 60 | Paraguay | 3,188 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 130.5% | rising |
| 61 | Costa Rica | 3,170 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 59.1% | rising |
| 62 | Nicaragua | 3,157 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 194.7% | volatile |
| 63 | Dominican Republic | 2,989 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 14.1% | rising |
| 64 | Malawi | 2,962 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 86.6% | rising |
| 65 | Greece | 2,951 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 49.9% | rising |
| 66 | Guatemala | 2,668 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 40.7% | rising |
| 67 | Togo | 2,649 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 305.5% | volatile |
| 68 | Serbia | 2,622 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 28.2% | rising |
| 69 | Burkina Faso | 2,619 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 281.2% | volatile |
| 70 | Viet Nam | 9,669 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 389.9% | volatile |
| 70 | Morocco | 2,578 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 84.4% | rising |
| 71 | Hungary | 2,549 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 72 | Kyrgyzstan | 2,547 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 120.3% | rising |
| 73 | Nepal | 2,261 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 165.6% | rising |
| 74 | Vanuatu | 2,230 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 75 | Gabon | 2,192 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 104.4% | rising |
| 76 | Somalia | 2,160 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 297.0% | volatile |
| 77 | Egypt | 1,992 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 146.7% | rising |
| 78 | Czechia | 1,971 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 33.2% | rising |
| 79 | Poland | 6,742 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 64.1% | rising |
| 79 | Sri Lanka | 1,884 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 242.2% | volatile |
| 80 | Azerbaijan | 1,728 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 363.0% | volatile |
| 81 | Senegal | 1,709 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 174.6% | volatile |
| 82 | Sierra Leone | 1,642 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 199.8% | volatile |
| 83 | Laos | 1,641 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 1,097.8% | volatile |
| 84 | Iraq | 1,622 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 133.7% | rising |
| 85 | Panama | 1,599 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 74.9% | rising |
| 86 | Taiwan | 1,578 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 109.5% | rising |
| 87 | Cuba | 1,542 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 30.2% | rising |
| 88 | Cambodia | 1,537 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 1,175.5% | volatile |
| 89 | Georgia | 1,457 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 83.7% | rising |
| 90 | Belgium | 1,412 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 91 | New Zealand | 1,345 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 27.9% | rising |
| 92 | Liberia | 1,308 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 143.3% | volatile |
| 93 | Albania | 1,285 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 80.7% | rising |
| 94 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,284 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 24.8% | rising |
| 95 | North Macedonia | 1,270 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 36.7% | rising |
| 96 | Central African Republic | 1,264 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 105.1% | rising |
| 97 | North Korea | 1,166 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 51.9% | rising |
| 98 | Eritrea | 1,131 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 822.8% | volatile |
| 99 | Austria | 1,121 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 26.9% | rising |
| 100 | Namibia | 1,101 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 240.4% | volatile |
| 101 | Turkmenistan | 1,073 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 179.0% | volatile |
| 102 | Denmark | 1,047 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 95.9% | rising |
| 103 | Botswana | 1,026 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 107.5% | rising |
| 104 | Tunisia | 915.39 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 62.4% | rising |
| 105 | Niger | 903.72 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 64.4% | rising |
| 106 | Tajikistan | 871.2 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 131.4% | rising |
| 107 | Saudi Arabia | 845.11 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 43.0% | rising |
| 108 | El Salvador | 826.15 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 109 | Puerto Rico | 784.93 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 110 | Libya | 764.16 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 109.0% | rising |
| 111 | Norway | 757.8 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 112 | Armenia | 728.03 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 246.6% | volatile |
| 113 | Mexico | 727.77 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 165.5% | volatile |
| 114 | Rwanda | 715 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 248.2% | volatile |
| 115 | New Caledonia | 682.04 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 116 | Switzerland | 668.38 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 27.1% | rising |
| 117 | Burundi | 645.97 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 104.1% | rising |
| 118 | Sweden | 604.03 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 62.5% | rising |
| 119 | Guinea-Bissau | 562.05 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 128.0% | rising |
| 120 | Israel | 453.53 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 197.8% | volatile |
| 121 | Haiti | 387.45 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 44.0% | rising |
| 122 | Gambia | 383.1 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 81.1% | rising |
| 123 | Palestine | 298.23 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 261.2% | volatile |
| 124 | Jordan | 288.75 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 128.2% | rising |
| 125 | Cyprus | 271.89 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 66.2% | rising |
| 126 | Finland | 249.24 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 86.8% | rising |
| 127 | Ireland | 243.04 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 73.1% | rising |
| 128 | Brunei Darussalam | 223.32 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 36.0% | rising |
| 129 | Trinidad and Tobago | 187.12 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 48.1% | rising |
| 130 | Jamaica | 185.01 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 27.4% | rising |
| 131 | Oman | 173.46 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 549.8% | volatile |
| 132 | Belize | 164.9 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 49.9% | rising |
| 133 | Bhutan | 157.18 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 121.5% | rising |
| 134 | Singapore | 155.73 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 68.2% | rising |
| 135 | Guyana | 111.04 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 93.9% | rising |
| 136 | Lebanon | 99.11 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 178.6% | volatile |
| 137 | Yemen | 97.85 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 125.5% | rising |
| 138 | Luxembourg | 83.19 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 53.5% | rising |
| 139 | Hong Kong | 60.19 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 45.9% | rising |
| 140 | Kuwait | 59.42 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 51.1% | rising |
| 141 | Mauritius | 56.52 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 56.7% | rising |
| 142 | United Arab Emirates | 49.47 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 369.7% | volatile |
| 143 | Lithuania | 1,832 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 102.3% | rising |
| 143 | Suriname | 46.69 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 26.8% | rising |
| 144 | Sao Tome and Principe | 36.09 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 145 | Barbados | 25.24 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 99.3% | rising |
| 146 | Comoros | 24.76 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 23.4% | rising |
| 147 | Bahamas | 18.27 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 24.7% | rising |
| 148 | Bahrain | 15.33 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 95.8% | rising |
| 149 | United States Virgin Islands | 13.48 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 150 | Malta | 9.9 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 46.3% | rising |
| 151 | Qatar | 8.05 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 176.6% | volatile |
| 152 | Liechtenstein | 6.55 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 3.8% | flat |
| 153 | Guernsey | 5.11 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 2.2% | flat |
| 154 | Solomon Islands | 4.76 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 36.8% | rising |
| 155 | Jersey | 4.57 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 2.7% | flat |
| 156 | Cayman Islands | 4.45 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 161.9% | volatile |
| 157 | Antigua and Barbuda | 3.63 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 158 | Isle of Man | 3.25 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 647.4% | volatile |
| 159 | Andorra | 1.76 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 160 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1.61 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 375.0% | volatile |
| 161 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 1.6 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 25.0% | rising |
| 162 | Western Sahara | 1.57 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 800.1% | volatile |
| 163 | Djibouti | 1.3 Square kilometres | 2022 | unchanged | flat |
| 164 | British Virgin Islands | 0.5506 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 40.0% | rising |
| 165 | Seychelles | 0.33 Square kilometres | 2022 | — | volatile |
| 166 | Netherlands | 1,528 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 43.3% | rising |
| 166 | Aruba | 0.087 Square kilometres | 2022 | — | volatile |
| 167 | Macao | 0.0757 Square kilometres | 2022 | unchanged | flat |
| 168 | Monaco | 0.0411 Square kilometres | 2022 | unchanged | flat |
| 273 | Latvia | 819.64 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 249.0% | volatile |
| 384 | Estonia | 420.57 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 163.8% | volatile |
| 463 | Timor-Leste | 303.26 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 172.5% | rising |
| 505 | Slovenia | 239.34 Square kilometres | 2022 | up 25.5% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- International Programme for Action on Climate Parties 723,359 Square kilometres
- G20 645,026 Square kilometres
- G20 excl. European Union 612,912 Square kilometres
- APEC 477,257 Square kilometres
- G20 non-OECD economies 490,585 Square kilometres
- Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 321,812 Square kilometres
- Major five Asia economies 317,043 Square kilometres
- Eastern Asia 215,007 Square kilometres
- OECD (evolving composition) 216,625 Square kilometres
- OECD (38 countries) 216,625 Square kilometres
- Eastern Europe 125,498 Square kilometres
- South-Eastern Asia 106,805 Square kilometres
- OECD (37 countries) 213,454 Square kilometres
- ASEAN 106,502 Square kilometres
- OECD (36 countries) 202,535 Square kilometres
- Dynamic Asian economies 84,757 Square kilometres
- OECD (35 countries) 200,703 Square kilometres
- Central America 33,211 Square kilometres
- OECD (34 countries) 199,884 Square kilometres
- Western Europe 26,916 Square kilometres
- OECD (31 countries) 194,526 Square kilometres
- Central Asia 23,387 Square kilometres
- OECD (30 countries) 193,514 Square kilometres
- OECD (26 countries) 182,252 Square kilometres
- Middle East and North Africa 15,015 Square kilometres
- CIS 129,218 Square kilometres
- Northern Africa 9,967 Square kilometres
- Main Latin American countries 127,569 Square kilometres
- Rio Grande do Sul 9,695 Square kilometres
- MERCOSUR 127,151 Square kilometres
- Santa Catarina 9,621 Square kilometres
- Main industrialised Asia 114,585 Square kilometres
- Minas Gerais 9,332 Square kilometres
- G20 OECD countries 104,833 Square kilometres
- Pará 8,231 Square kilometres
- G7 103,792 Square kilometres
- Paraná 7,507 Square kilometres
- Low income countries (World Bank) 97,563 Square kilometres
- Bahia 6,860 Square kilometres
- OECD Europe 95,975 Square kilometres
About this data
The land cover dataset provides a global assessment of land cover and land cover change to monitor pressures on ecosystems and biodiversity. By using geospatial data with high spatio-temporal resolution, it develops a set of internationally comparable indicators with a long time series and a five-year interval from 2000 to 2022 for the Climate Change Initiative Land Cover dataset, and from 1975 to 2030 for the Global Human Settlement Layer dataset. Please see the working paper for a more complete description of the methods. The dataset has a global coverage on the national level, while on the sub-national TL2 level (i.e. large subnational regions) results are reported for all OECD countries as well as for Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa. The following country aggregates are included: Euro area, European Union, Advanced economies, Emerging market economies, G7, G20, OECD, OECD Europe, OECD Asia Oceania, OECD Americas, the LAC region and the World. Data source(s): Climate Change Initiative land cover data and Global Human Settlement Layer built-up area data. Contact: ENV.Stat@oecd.org Database documentation