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Arable Land per Person, 2017

2017, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Arable Land per Person, 2017 covers 206 countries. Kazakhstan is highest, at 1.590023; Singapore is lowest, at 0.000100. The middle country reads 0.114591. Against 2016, 206 values changed (61 up, 145 down), the same countries are covered.

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Arable Land per Person · Data for 2017

HighestKazakhstan

1.590023

LowestSingapore

0.000100

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, 2017, 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 206 countries · select a heading to sort

Arable Land per Person, 2017: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.590023
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.250458
3CanadaCANNorthern America1.053740
4ArgentinaARGSouth America0.911639
5RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.837265
6NigerNERWestern Africa0.825735
7LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.740052
8UkraineUKREastern Europe0.721300
9LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.664179
10ParaguayPRYSouth America0.663841
11UruguayURYSouth America0.644515
12MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.630810
13BelarusBLREastern Europe0.605456
14EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.515415
15BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.512838
16SudanSDNNorthern Africa0.484379
17United StatesUSANorthern America0.482008
18HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.444444
19RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.436118
20MongoliaMNGEastern Asia0.420094
21BoliviaBOLSouth America0.413677
22DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.410652
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.407028
24GuineaGINWestern Africa0.406737
25MaliMLIWestern Africa0.382829

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kazakhstan1.590023
  2. 2Australia1.250458
  3. 3Canada1.053740
  4. 4Argentina0.911639
  5. 5Russia0.837265

Lowest

  1. 206Singapore0.000100
  2. 205Hong Kong0.000419
  3. 204Faroe Islands0.001315
  4. 203Bahrain0.001392
  5. 202Seychelles0.001565

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.114591. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 206values changed, of 206 in both
  • 61 · 145rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Samoa0.126585 → 0.092788−0.033798
  • Kazakhstan1.614182 → 1.590023−0.024159
  • Niger0.845993 → 0.825735−0.020258
  • Bolivia0.432557 → 0.413677−0.018880
  • Uruguay0.658808 → 0.644515−0.014293

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 2017.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 206 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) (2017). Arable Land per Person, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arable-land-per-person/2017

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07Questions

Arable Land per Person, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest arable land per person in Arable Land per Person, 2017?

Kazakhstan, at 1.590023, of the 206 countries in the file.

What year does Arable Land per Person, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Arable Land per Person, 2017 cover?

206.

Where can I download Arable Land per Person, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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