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Arable Land per Person, 2001

2001, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Arable Land per Person, 2001 covers 202 countries. Kazakhstan is highest, at 1.884986; Singapore is lowest, at 0.000242. The middle country reads 0.147693. Against 2000, 202 values changed (48 up, 154 down), the same countries are covered.

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Arable Land per Person · Data for 2001

HighestKazakhstan

1.884986

LowestSingapore

0.000242

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Arable Land per Person, 2001, 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 202 countries · select a heading to sort

Arable Land per Person, 2001: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.884986
2CanadaCANNorthern America1.320015
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.255532
4NigerNERWestern Africa1.171916
5RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.848493
6ArgentinaARGSouth America0.737439
7UkraineUKREastern Europe0.662576
8MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.633624
9United StatesUSANorthern America0.615726
10ParaguayPRYSouth America0.598532
11BelarusBLREastern Europe0.580246
12EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.487712
13MongoliaMNGEastern Asia0.486547
14Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa0.477103
15LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.469918
16TogoTGOWestern Africa0.466952
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.452682
18HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.452119
19NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa0.439407
20BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.432880
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa0.428219
22DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.427709
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.423415
24FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.422763
25UruguayURYSouth America0.420554

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kazakhstan1.884986
  2. 2Canada1.320015
  3. 3Australia1.255532
  4. 4Niger1.171916
  5. 5Russia0.848493

Lowest

  1. 202Singapore0.000242
  2. 201Hong Kong0.000745
  3. 200Djibouti0.001296
  4. 199Faroe Islands0.001372
  5. 198Bahrain0.003039

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.147693. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 202values changed, of 202 in both
  • 48 · 154rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Sierra Leone0.110769 → 0.145229+0.034460
  • Australia1.233551 → 1.255532+0.021981
  • Cuba0.315417 → 0.335513+0.020096
  • Rwanda0.121744 → 0.132737+0.010992
  • Iran0.224696 → 0.235145+0.010449

Fell most

  • Lithuania0.822395 → 0.469918−0.352477
  • Estonia0.603442 → 0.487712−0.115731
  • Botswana0.208658 → 0.116805−0.091853
  • Kazakhstan1.945623 → 1.884986−0.060636
  • Niger1.214201 → 1.171916−0.042284

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 2001.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 202 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) (2001). Arable Land per Person, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arable-land-per-person/2001

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07Questions

Arable Land per Person, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest arable land per person in Arable Land per Person, 2001?

Kazakhstan, at 1.884986, of the 202 countries in the file.

What year does Arable Land per Person, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Arable Land per Person, 2001 cover?

202.

Where can I download Arable Land per Person, 2001?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Arable Land per Person, 2001 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Arable Land per Person, 2023.

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