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Agricultural Land, 2008

2008, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 2008 covers 208 countries. Uruguay is highest, at 83.8418; Suriname is lowest, at 0.4411. The middle country reads 38.2748. Against 2007, 164 values changed (91 up, 73 down), the same countries are covered.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 2008

HighestUruguay

83.8418

LowestSuriname

0.4411

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, 2008, 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 208 countries · select a heading to sort

Agricultural Land, 2008: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1UruguayURYSouth America83.8418
2Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia80.8329
3South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa80.0501
4KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia78.1018
5PalestinePSEWestern Asia77.9330
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa77.7997
7Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe77.6842
8RwandaRWAEastern Africa76.2059
9SyriaSYRWestern Asia75.6807
10MoldovaMDAEastern Europe75.4333
11MongoliaMNGEastern Asia73.5214
12DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa73.4211
13TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia73.0960
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe73.0955
15NigeriaNGAWestern Africa72.9273
16ComorosCOMEastern Africa71.4670
17UkraineUKREastern Europe71.2767
18BurundiBDIEastern Africa71.1838
19EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa71.1047
20BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia71.0840
21SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.3383
22MadagascarMDGEastern Africa70.3219
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa69.6374
24Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.1540
25IrelandIRLNorthern Europe67.1941

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uruguay83.8418
  2. 2Saudi Arabia80.8329
  3. 3South Africa80.0501
  4. 4Kazakhstan78.1018
  5. 5Palestine77.9330

Lowest

  1. 208Suriname0.4411
  2. 207Greenland0.5901
  3. 206Singapore1.0000
  4. 205Turks and Caicos Islands1.0526
  5. 204Bahamas1.0989

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 38.2748. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 164values changed, of 208 in both
  • 91 · 73rose · fell
  • 44unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cyprus15.9307 → 12.5108−3.4199
  • Iraq20.8832 → 18.7512−2.1321
  • Ghana54.8134 → 52.7589−2.0545
  • Bermuda7.4074 → 5.5556−1.8519
  • Mexico54.8882 → 53.1675−1.7207

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 2008.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 208 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) (2008). Agricultural Land, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/2008

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 2008?

Uruguay, at 83.8418, of the 208 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 2008 cover?

208.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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