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Agricultural Land, 1993

1993, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 1993 covers 204 countries. Uruguay is highest, at 85.3045; Suriname is lowest, at 0.5545. The middle country reads 38.4725. Against 1992, 150 values changed (80 up, 70 down), 4 countries joined.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 1993

HighestUruguay

85.3045

LowestSuriname

0.5545

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, 1993, 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 204 countries · select a heading to sort

Agricultural Land, 1993: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1UruguayURYSouth America85.3045
2PalestinePSEWestern Asia82.5581
3KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia82.1376
4BurundiBDIEastern Africa80.8801
5South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa79.9083
6MoldovaMDAEastern Europe77.6024
7MongoliaMNGEastern Asia76.9814
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa76.8775
9TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia75.4368
10SyriaSYRWestern Asia74.2301
11EritreaERIEastern Africa73.2673
12BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia72.5666
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe72.4755
14UkraineUKREastern Europe72.3052
15Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe71.5789
16RwandaRWAEastern Africa71.1390
17GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.0628
18EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa71.0465
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.2075
20Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.1490
21MoroccoMARNorthern Africa68.8125
22DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe68.4750
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe68.2172
24NigeriaNGAWestern Africa66.9291
25TuvaluTUVPolynesia66.6667

02In 1993

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uruguay85.3045
  2. 2Palestine82.5581
  3. 3Kazakhstan82.1376
  4. 4Burundi80.8801
  5. 5South Africa79.9083

Lowest

  1. 204Suriname0.5545
  2. 203Greenland0.6956
  3. 202Turks and Caicos Islands1.0526
  4. 201Bahamas1.0989
  5. 200Singapore1.7910

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 38.4725. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031992 → 1993

Since 1992

What changed between 1992 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 150values changed, of 200 in both
  • 80 · 70rose · fell
  • 50unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Czechia+ Eritrea+ Ethiopia+ Slovakia

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 1993.

  • 203 distinct values among 204

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 8.6957. 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 204 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) (1993). Agricultural Land, 1993 [data set], describing 1993. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/1993

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 1993: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 1993?

Uruguay, at 85.3045, of the 204 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 1993 describe?

1993.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 1993 cover?

204.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 1993?

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, 1993 the newest?

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

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