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Arable Land per Person, 2009

2009, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Arable Land per Person, 2009 covers 204 countries. Kazakhstan is highest, at 1.72193; Singapore is lowest, at 0.00012. The middle country reads 0.12892. Against 2008, 204 values changed (57 up, 147 down), the same countries are covered.

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Arable Land per Person · Data for 2009

HighestKazakhstan

1.72193

LowestSingapore

0.00012

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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.72193
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.25125
3CanadaCANNorthern America1.13250
4NigerNERWestern Africa0.93454
5RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.85197
6ArgentinaARGSouth America0.84423
7UkraineUKREastern Europe0.69660
8UruguayURYSouth America0.66312
9ParaguayPRYSouth America0.65110
10LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.64931
11MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.63416
12BelarusBLREastern Europe0.58330
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.54537
14United StatesUSANorthern America0.51842
15HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.45746
16MongoliaMNGEastern Asia0.45172
17EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.44690
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.44015
19RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.43152
20BoliviaBOLSouth America0.43141
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.42299
22BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.42260
23Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa0.41201
24MaliMLIWestern Africa0.40526
25TogoTGOWestern Africa0.39961

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kazakhstan1.72193
  2. 2Australia1.25125
  3. 3Canada1.13250
  4. 4Niger0.93454
  5. 5Russia0.85197

Lowest

  1. 204Singapore0.00012
  2. 203Hong Kong0.00057
  3. 202Faroe Islands0.00131
  4. 201Djibouti0.00143
  5. 200Bahrain0.00174

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.12892. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 204values changed, of 204 in both
  • 57 · 147rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

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 2009.

  • 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) (2009). Arable Land per Person, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arable-land-per-person/2009

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07Questions

Arable Land per Person, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest arable land per person in Arable Land per Person, 2009?

Kazakhstan, at 1.72193, of the 204 countries in the file.

What year does Arable Land per Person, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Arable Land per Person, 2009 cover?

204.

Where can I download Arable Land per Person, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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