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Agricultural Land, 1970

1970, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 1970 covers 177 countries. Mongolia is highest, at 90.9141; Suriname is lowest, at 0.2991. The middle country reads 36.3494. Against 1969, 124 values changed (81 up, 43 down), the same countries are covered.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 1970

HighestMongolia

90.9141

LowestSuriname

0.2991

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Agricultural Land, 1970, as published. FAO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 177 countries · select a heading to sort

Agricultural Land, 1970: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1MongoliaMNGEastern Asia90.9141
2UruguayURYSouth America88.4527
3EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa86.8605
4PalestinePSEWestern Asia80.3987
5LesothoLSOSouthern Africa79.9407
6South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa78.6957
7United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe77.9110
8HungaryHUNEastern Europe76.4059
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia74.4949
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe74.3750
11SyriaSYRWestern Asia73.2343
12BurundiBDIEastern Africa73.2087
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.0240
14SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.0577
15IrelandIRLNorthern Europe69.5936
16Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.1490
17ItalyITASouthern Europe68.6138
18TuvaluTUVPolynesia66.6667
19NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe65.2044
20RomaniaROUEastern Europe64.8172
21GrenadaGRDCaribbean64.7059
22SpainESPSouthern Europe64.2663
23AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand64.2298
24PolandPOLEastern Europe63.8055
25Puerto RicoPRICaribbean62.2322

02In 1970

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mongolia90.9141
  2. 2Uruguay88.4527
  3. 3Eswatini86.8605
  4. 4Palestine80.3987
  5. 5Lesotho79.9407

Lowest

  1. 177Suriname0.2991
  2. 176Greenland0.6877
  3. 175Bahamas0.9990
  4. 174Turks and Caicos Islands1.0526
  5. 173Papua New Guinea1.3779

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 36.3494. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031969 → 1970

Since 1969

What changed between 1969 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 124values changed, of 177 in both
  • 81 · 43rose · fell
  • 53unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1970.

  • 175 distinct values among 177

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 42.8571. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    FAO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 177 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (1970). Agricultural Land, 1970 [data set], describing 1970. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/1970

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 1970: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 1970?

Mongolia, at 90.9141, of the 177 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 1970 describe?

1970.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 1970 cover?

177.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 1970?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Agricultural Land, 1970 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Agricultural Land, 2023.

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