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Arable Land per Person, 2006

2006, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Arable Land per Person, 2006 covers 204 countries. Kazakhstan is highest, at 1.776981; Singapore is lowest, at 0.000148. The middle country reads 0.135775. Against 2005, 202 values changed (50 up, 152 down), 2 countries joined.

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Arable Land per Person · Data for 2006

HighestKazakhstan

1.776981

LowestSingapore

0.000148

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, 2006, 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 204 countries · select a heading to sort

Arable Land per Person, 2006: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.776981
2CanadaCANNorthern America1.206066
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.184687
4NigerNERWestern Africa0.990778
5ArgentinaARGSouth America0.898046
6RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.849873
7UkraineUKREastern Europe0.686271
8ParaguayPRYSouth America0.633177
9MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.631732
10BelarusBLREastern Europe0.576787
11LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.574573
12United StatesUSANorthern America0.550031
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.543195
14MongoliaMNGEastern Asia0.457719
15HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.456442
16DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.431650
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.429241
18TogoTGOWestern Africa0.429110
19Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa0.427177
20IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.424647
21UruguayURYSouth America0.424380
22RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.421775
23EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.415129
24BoliviaBOLSouth America0.413244
25BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.412050

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kazakhstan1.776981
  2. 2Canada1.206066
  3. 3Australia1.184687
  4. 4Niger0.990778
  5. 5Argentina0.898046

Lowest

  1. 204Singapore0.000148
  2. 203Hong Kong0.000583
  3. 202Faroe Islands0.001324
  4. 201Djibouti0.001519
  5. 200Bahrain0.002124

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.135775. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 202values changed, of 202 in both
  • 50 · 152rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Australia1.308530 → 1.184687−0.123842
  • Niger1.026665 → 0.990778−0.035887
  • Senegal0.278226 → 0.246781−0.031445
  • Benin0.314972 → 0.287580−0.027392
  • Bhutan0.252317 → 0.225552−0.026765
+ Montenegro+ Serbia

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 2006.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 204 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) (2006). Arable Land per Person, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arable-land-per-person/2006

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07Questions

Arable Land per Person, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest arable land per person in Arable Land per Person, 2006?

Kazakhstan, at 1.776981, of the 204 countries in the file.

What year does Arable Land per Person, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Arable Land per Person, 2006 cover?

204.

Where can I download Arable Land per Person, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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