Arable land (hectares per person)

For 2023, Arable land (hectares per person) is led by Kazakhstan at 1.46. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

Arable land (hectares per person) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.

Countries ranked 206
Snapshot year 2023
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0.00.40.71.11.5KazakhstanKazakhstan: 1.461.5AustraliaAustralia: 1.161.2CanadaCanada: 0.951.0ArgentinaArgentina: 0.890.9UkraineUkraine: 0.870.9Russian FederationRussian Federation: 0.850.8LithuaniaLithuania: 0.800.8MoldovaMoldova: 0.760.8LatviaLatvia: 0.720.7NigerNiger: 0.680.7ParaguayParaguay: 0.670.7UruguayUruguay: 0.650.6
Rank Country Value
51 Croatia 0.22
52 Thailand 0.22
53 Nicaragua 0.22
54 Cameroon 0.22
55 South Sudan 0.22
56 Turkmenistan 0.22
57 Senegal 0.21
58 Azerbaijan 0.21
59 Myanmar 0.20
60 Tanzania 0.20
61 Eritrea 0.20
62 Tonga 0.19
63 South Africa 0.19
64 Malawi 0.19
65 Afghanistan 0.19
66 Sierra Leone 0.19
67 Syrian Arab Republic 0.19
68 Guinea-Bissau 0.18
69 Zambia 0.18
70 Morocco 0.18
71 Kyrgyz Republic 0.18
72 Greece 0.18
73 Iran, Islamic Rep. 0.17
74 Mozambique 0.17
75 Algeria 0.16
76 Gambia, The 0.16
77 Nigeria 0.16
78 Lao PDR 0.16
79 Lesotho 0.15
80 Mexico 0.15
81 Cote d'Ivoire 0.15
82 Armenia 0.15
83 Angola 0.15
84 Norway 0.15
85 Austria 0.14
86 Eswatini 0.14
87 Uganda 0.14
88 Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.14
89 Germany 0.14
90 Ghana 0.14
91 Gabon 0.13
92 Ethiopia 0.13
93 Bhutan 0.13
94 Panama 0.13
95 Pakistan 0.12
96 Italy 0.12
97 Kenya 0.12
98 Guyana 0.12
99 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.12
100 Peru 0.12
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Kazakhstan sits at the top of the Arable land (hectares per person) distribution in 2023 at 1.46, with a lead of 0.30 over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Iraq at 0.11, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Singapore (0.00), and the page currently covers 206 countries.

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