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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
151 Bangladesh 0.05
152 Switzerland 0.04
153 Liechtenstein 0.04
154 Antigua and Barbuda 0.04
155 Jamaica 0.04
156 Costa Rica 0.03
157 Japan 0.03
158 Papua New Guinea 0.03
159 Yemen, Rep. 0.03
160 Solomon Islands 0.03
161 Equatorial Guinea 0.03
162 Korea, Rep. 0.03
163 Israel 0.03
164 Egypt, Arab Rep. 0.03
165 British Virgin Islands 0.03
166 Grenada 0.03
167 Barbados 0.02
168 Lebanon 0.02
169 Malaysia 0.02
170 American Samoa 0.02
171 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.02
172 New Caledonia 0.02
173 Bahamas, The 0.02
174 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.02
175 Aruba 0.02
176 Trinidad and Tobago 0.02
177 Jordan 0.02
178 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 0.02
179 Sao Tome and Principe 0.02
180 Oman 0.02
181 Palau 0.02
182 Puerto Rico (US) 0.02
183 Kiribati 0.02
184 St. Lucia 0.01
185 Montenegro 0.01
186 Malta 0.01
187 Marshall Islands 0.01
188 Andorra 0.01
189 French Polynesia 0.01
190 Brunei Darussalam 0.01
191 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 0.01
192 West Bank and Gaza 0.01
193 Qatar 0.01
194 Maldives 0.01
195 Guam 0.01
196 United Arab Emirates 0.00
197 Bermuda 0.00
198 Cayman Islands 0.00
199 Djibouti 0.00
200 Northern Mariana Islands 0.00
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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