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Report year 1993Data year 1993
Arable land (hectares per person)Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a scorePublished by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
63 reference years (1961–2023), covering 172 to 206 countries, from FAOSTAT via the World Bank’s indicator API (AG.LND.ARBL.HA.PC). Hectares of cropland for every person in the country. ⚠ 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. This is land divided by people, so a thinly populated plain scores high and a dense, productive, food-importing economy scores low. It says what a country has to work with, not how well it works with it — cereal yield is the indicator that answers that. ⚠ Stored to two decimals because most countries sit below one hectare a head, and one decimal would collapse half the table onto the same number. ⚠ 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.
Arable Land per Person 1993 — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Cite as: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAOSTAT. Rome: FAO.
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Hectares of cropland for every person in the country, from FAOSTAT and served through the World Bank's indicator API (AG.LND.ARBL.HA.PC). ⚠ Neither end is better: this is land divided by people, so a thinly populated plain scores high and a dense, productive, food-importing economy scores low. It says what a country has to work with, not how well it works with it — cereal yield is the one that answers that. The FAO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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| Country | ISO Code | Arable land (hectares per person) |
|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 2.028425 |
| Canada | CAN | 1.436791 |
| Niger | NER | 1.426909 |
| Australia | AUS | 0.970297 |
| Russian Federation | RUS | 0.872552 |
| Argentina | ARG | 0.787346 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 0.767933 |
| Estonia | EST | 0.713460 |
| United States | USA | 0.702842 |
| Latvia | LVA | 0.658139 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 0.636751 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 0.624789 |
| Belarus | BLR | 0.596149 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 0.592177 |
| Moldova | MDA | 0.586028 |
| Togo | TGO | 0.547843 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 0.527197 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 0.523584 |
| Iceland | ISL | 0.511897 |
| Chad | TCD | 0.508361 |
| Denmark | DNK | 0.488183 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 0.482469 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 0.479562 |
| Namibia | NAM | 0.462651 |
| Hungary | HUN | 0.458411 |
| Finland | FIN | 0.449151 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 0.431364 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 0.431272 |
| Turkiye | TUR | 0.414938 |
| Romania | ROU | 0.410354 |
| Uruguay | URY | 0.405532 |
| Guinea | GIN | 0.384390 |
| Libya | LBY | 0.383474 |
| Spain | ESP | 0.380628 |
| Poland | POL | 0.371931 |
| Senegal | SEN | 0.367067 |
| Morocco | MAR | 0.351323 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | SYR | 0.345833 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 0.337213 |
| Cuba | CUB | 0.334839 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 0.331983 |
| Czechia | CZE | 0.322560 |
| Sweden | SWE | 0.318516 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 0.314125 |
| Mali | MLI | 0.313692 |
| Honduras | HND | 0.310331 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 0.310090 |
| Belize | BLZ | 0.307847 |
| France | FRA | 0.305124 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 0.303460 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 0.303117 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 0.300593 |
| Kyrgyz Republic | KGZ | 0.299328 |
| Thailand | THA | 0.297606 |
| Gabon | GAB | 0.297260 |
| Slovak Republic | SVK | 0.293317 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 0.291649 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 0.290268 |
| Turkmenistan | TKM | 0.289872 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 0.286334 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | IRN | 0.282264 |
| Benin | BEN | 0.280961 |
| Brazil | BRA | 0.280616 |
| Algeria | DZA | 0.276166 |
| Isle of Man | IMN | 0.275533 |
| Greece | GRC | 0.271404 |
| Eritrea | ERI | 0.268318 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 0.266963 |
| Uganda | UGA | 0.259190 |
| Mexico | MEX | 0.257045 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 0.255019 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 0.250513 |
| Botswana | BWA | 0.246459 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 0.245190 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 0.237994 |
| Angola | AGO | 0.233879 |
| Croatia | HRV | 0.230846 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 0.230806 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 0.228932 |
| Portugal | PRT | 0.224794 |
| Malawi | MWI | 0.223648 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 0.219741 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 0.217699 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 0.211270 |
| Norway | NOR | 0.205242 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 0.203339 |
| Fiji | FJI | 0.201678 |
| Kenya | KEN | 0.201456 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 0.198222 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | KNA | 0.193977 |
| Panama | PAN | 0.191197 |
| Congo, Rep. | COG | 0.186889 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 0.186189 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 0.183256 |
| Peru | PER | 0.181973 |
| Austria | AUT | 0.179492 |
| Albania | ALB | 0.178788 |
| India | IND | 0.176318 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 0.173520 |
| Lao PDR | LAO | 0.170542 |
| Ghana | GHA | 0.168781 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | COD | 0.164796 |
| Burundi | BDI | 0.163823 |
| Chile | CHL | 0.163378 |
| Liberia | LBR | 0.162403 |
| Georgia | GEO | 0.161878 |
| Tonga | TON | 0.159835 |
| Somalia, Fed. Rep. | SOM | 0.153261 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 0.152172 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 0.151791 |
| Italy | ITA | 0.150444 |
| Germany | DEU | 0.143870 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 0.140664 |
| Comoros | COM | 0.137223 |
| Suriname | SUR | 0.135924 |
| Gambia, The | GMB | 0.135480 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 0.135382 |
| Liechtenstein | LIE | 0.132939 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 0.131593 |
| Guyana | GUY | 0.126534 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 0.125421 |
| Armenia | ARM | 0.125386 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 0.125342 |
| Venezuela, RB | VEN | 0.122280 |
| British Virgin Islands | VGB | 0.117723 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 0.116908 |
| Ireland | IRL | 0.112939 |
| Nepal | NPL | 0.110037 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 0.109396 |
| Haiti | HTI | 0.107170 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 0.106501 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 0.105529 |
| Yemen, Rep. | YEM | 0.104215 |
| Korea, Dem. People's Rep. | PRK | 0.104198 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 0.103534 |
| China | CHN | 0.102933 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 0.101999 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 0.100414 |
| Samoa | WSM | 0.098967 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 0.093784 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 0.085659 |
| Colombia | COL | 0.084869 |
| Philippines | PHL | 0.079742 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 0.079268 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 0.073271 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 0.072004 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 0.071023 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 0.068301 |
| Israel | ISR | 0.065957 |
| Barbados | BRB | 0.061296 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 0.060988 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 0.059072 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 0.059011 |
| Dominica | DMA | 0.057609 |
| Jordan | JOR | 0.052668 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 0.051404 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 0.047374 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 0.047112 |
| West Bank and Gaza | PSE | 0.045963 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 0.044667 |
| Korea, Rep. | KOR | 0.042426 |
| New Caledonia | NCL | 0.041916 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY | 0.041582 |
| San Marino | SMR | 0.040863 |
| Japan | JPN | 0.037531 |
| Virgin Islands (U.S.) | VIR | 0.037531 |
| Malta | MLT | 0.032318 |
| Equatorial Guinea | GNQ | 0.032074 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 0.031239 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 0.030316 |
| Aruba | ABW | 0.027143 |
| Qatar | QAT | 0.026829 |
| Kiribati | KIR | 0.025368 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 0.024393 |
| Bahamas, The | BHS | 0.024027 |
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | FSM | 0.023350 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | MNP | 0.021762 |
| Grenada | GRD | 0.019535 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 0.018786 |
| Palau | PLW | 0.018324 |
| United Arab Emirates | ARE | 0.018001 |
| Andorra | AND | 0.015805 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | STP | 0.015330 |
| Brunei Darussalam | BRN | 0.014442 |
| Oman | OMN | 0.014345 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 0.013840 |
| Guam | GUM | 0.013731 |
| American Samoa | ASM | 0.013557 |
| Maldives | MDV | 0.012251 |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 0.010617 |
| French Polynesia | PYF | 0.009293 |
| Puerto Rico (US) | PRI | 0.008851 |
| Cayman Islands | CYM | 0.006672 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 0.005101 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 0.003772 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 0.002990 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 0.001628 |
| Faroe Islands | FRO | 0.001377 |
| Hong Kong SAR, China | HKG | 0.001017 |
| Singapore | SGP | 0.000302 |