Agricultural Land 1998

Report year 1998·Data year 1998

Agricultural land (% of land area)·Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a score·Published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

63 reference years (1961–2023), covering 177 to 210 countries, from FAOSTAT via the World Bank’s indicator API (AG.LND.AGRI.ZS). Cropland and permanent pasture together, as a share of land area. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER, so this indicator carries no good/bad colouring anywhere on the site and does not feed its topics’ rankings — it is charted on them, not scored by them. A high figure can be fertile plains or cleared forest; a low one can be desert or dense woodland. Read alongside forest area, which is the other half of the same land budget. ⚠ These are not separate published reports — `restatedByReport` names the World Development Indicators release they were pulled from. ⚠ A statistic, not an index. ⚠ No rank is published. A POSITION is derived here (2026-09-10) by ordering the score LARGEST FIRST, and it is a SIZE ORDER rather than a league table: this measure has no better end, so position 1 names the country with the biggest figure and says nothing about how that country is doing. The change arrows stay grey for the same reason, and the indicator is still left out of the Country Index.

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