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Arable Land per Person, 2005

2005, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Arable Land per Person, 2005 covers 202 countries. Kazakhstan is highest, at 1.788708; Singapore is lowest, at 0.000155. The middle country reads 0.135919. Against 2004, 202 values changed (57 up, 145 down), the same countries are covered.

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Arable Land per Person · Data for 2005

HighestKazakhstan

1.788708

LowestSingapore

0.000155

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.788708
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.308530
3CanadaCANNorthern America1.228680
4NigerNERWestern Africa1.026665
5ArgentinaARGSouth America0.861662
6RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.848537
7UkraineUKREastern Europe0.681972
8MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.634479
9ParaguayPRYSouth America0.627155
10LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.573810
11BelarusBLREastern Europe0.573474
12United StatesUSANorthern America0.562666
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.487762
14MongoliaMNGEastern Asia0.462549
15HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.456129
16TogoTGOWestern Africa0.437822
17EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.436825
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa0.436018
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.434733
20DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.430303
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.426317
22UruguayURYSouth America0.423645
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.421441
24BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.414285
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa0.414027

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kazakhstan1.788708
  2. 2Australia1.308530
  3. 3Canada1.228680
  4. 4Niger1.026665
  5. 5Argentina0.861662

Lowest

  1. 202Singapore0.000155
  2. 201Hong Kong0.000734
  3. 200Djibouti0.001192
  4. 199Faroe Islands0.001323
  5. 198Bahrain0.002284

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.135919. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 202values changed, of 202 in both
  • 57 · 145rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Lithuania0.478639 → 0.573810+0.095171
  • Estonia0.381124 → 0.436825+0.055702
  • Argentina0.819107 → 0.861662+0.042554
  • Latvia0.445844 → 0.487762+0.041917
  • Mali0.374130 → 0.413852+0.039723

Fell most

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 2005.

  • 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) (2005). Arable Land per Person, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arable-land-per-person/2005

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07Questions

Arable Land per Person, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest arable land per person in Arable Land per Person, 2005?

Kazakhstan, at 1.788708, of the 202 countries in the file.

What year does Arable Land per Person, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Arable Land per Person, 2005 cover?

202.

Where can I download Arable Land per Person, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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