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Agricultural Land, 1979

1979, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 1979 covers 177 countries. Uruguay is highest, at 86.3958; Suriname is lowest, at 0.3987. The middle country reads 36.6067. Against 1978, 122 values changed (76 up, 46 down), the same countries are covered.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 1979

HighestUruguay

86.3958

LowestSuriname

0.3987

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, 1979, 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, 1979: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1UruguayURYSouth America86.3958
2PalestinePSEWestern Asia81.8937
3BurundiBDIEastern Africa81.7757
4MongoliaMNGEastern Asia80.5932
5EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa77.9070
6South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa77.5342
7BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia76.6920
8United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe76.2700
9LesothoLSOSouthern Africa76.0540
10SyriaSYRWestern Asia75.9604
11HungaryHUNEastern Europe73.9657
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe73.0000
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.2258
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe71.0727
15SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.1294
16Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.1490
17RwandaRWAEastern Africa68.7880
18TuvaluTUVPolynesia66.6667
19RomaniaROUEastern Europe64.9779
20AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand64.2045
21El SalvadorSLVCentral America63.0792
22SpainESPSouthern Europe62.7677
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa62.7470
24PolandPOLEastern Europe62.1894
25MadagascarMDGEastern Africa61.9390

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uruguay86.3958
  2. 2Palestine81.8937
  3. 3Burundi81.7757
  4. 4Mongolia80.5932
  5. 5Eswatini77.9070

Lowest

  1. 177Suriname0.3987
  2. 176Greenland0.6877
  3. 175Turks and Caicos Islands1.0526
  4. 174Bahamas1.0989
  5. 173Papua New Guinea1.7511

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 36.6067. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 122values changed, of 177 in both
  • 76 · 46rose · fell
  • 55unchanged

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 1979.

  • 176 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) (1979). Agricultural Land, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/1979

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 1979?

Uruguay, at 86.3958, of the 177 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 1979 cover?

177.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 1979?

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, 1979 the newest?

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

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