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Agricultural Land, 1972

1972, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 1972 covers 177 countries. Mongolia is highest, at 90.9135; Suriname is lowest, at 0.3302. The middle country reads 36.9565. Against 1971, 118 values changed (83 up, 35 down), the same countries are covered.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 1972

HighestMongolia

90.9135

LowestSuriname

0.3302

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, 1972, 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, 1972: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1MongoliaMNGEastern Asia90.9135
2UruguayURYSouth America87.9899
3EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa87.9651
4PalestinePSEWestern Asia80.3987
5South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa78.3190
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa77.7009
7United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe77.5266
8SyriaSYRWestern Asia77.0541
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia76.7535
10HungaryHUNEastern Europe76.0920
11BurundiBDIEastern Africa74.2212
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe73.9000
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.0628
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe70.0740
15SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.0736
16Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.1490
17TuvaluTUVPolynesia66.6667
18SpainESPSouthern Europe65.1647
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand65.0606
20RomaniaROUEastern Europe64.8737
21PolandPOLEastern Europe63.2440
22NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe62.8466
23LebanonLBNWestern Asia62.0723
24RwandaRWAEastern Africa61.1269
25MadagascarMDGEastern Africa60.9072

02In 1972

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mongolia90.9135
  2. 2Uruguay87.9899
  3. 3Eswatini87.9651
  4. 4Palestine80.3987
  5. 5South Africa78.3190

Lowest

  1. 177Suriname0.3302
  2. 176Greenland0.6877
  3. 175Bahamas0.9990
  4. 174Turks and Caicos Islands1.0526
  5. 173Papua New Guinea1.4530

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 36.9565. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031971 → 1972

Since 1971

What changed between 1971 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 177 in both
  • 83 · 35rose · fell
  • 59unchanged

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 1972.

  • 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) (1972). Agricultural Land, 1972 [data set], describing 1972. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/1972

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 1972: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 1972?

Mongolia, at 90.9135, of the 177 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 1972 describe?

1972.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 1972 cover?

177.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 1972?

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, 1972 the newest?

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

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