Arable Land per Person 2017

Report year 2017·Data year 2017

Arable land (hectares per person)·Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a score·Published 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.

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