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Arable Land per Person, 2020

2020, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Arable Land per Person, 2020 covers 206 countries. Kazakhstan is highest, at 1.516940; Singapore is lowest, at 0.000098. The middle country reads 0.112870. Against 2019, 206 values changed (49 up, 157 down), the same countries are covered.

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Arable Land per Person · Data for 2020

HighestKazakhstan

1.516940

LowestSingapore

0.000098

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.516940
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.194733
3CanadaCANNorthern America1.005426
4ArgentinaARGSouth America0.927820
5RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.837543
6LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.800393
7NigerNERWestern Africa0.746281
8UkraineUKREastern Europe0.736884
9MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.702812
10LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.701939
11ParaguayPRYSouth America0.663038
12BelarusBLREastern Europe0.603415
13UruguayURYSouth America0.595593
14BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.533073
15EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.521992
16United StatesUSANorthern America0.464155
17SudanSDNNorthern Africa0.448714
18BoliviaBOLSouth America0.446435
19RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.440326
20HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.416318
21DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.406580
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.405639
23SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe0.377439
24MaliMLIWestern Africa0.375429
25GuineaGINWestern Africa0.370448

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kazakhstan1.516940
  2. 2Australia1.194733
  3. 3Canada1.005426
  4. 4Argentina0.927820
  5. 5Russia0.837543

Lowest

  1. 206Singapore0.000098
  2. 205Hong Kong0.000267
  3. 204Faroe Islands0.001332
  4. 203Bahrain0.001426
  5. 202Seychelles0.001523

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.112870. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 206values changed, of 206 in both
  • 49 · 157rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Lesotho0.068073 → 0.154491+0.086419
  • Moldova0.634294 → 0.702812+0.068518
  • Tunisia0.216386 → 0.236453+0.020067
  • Argentina0.908313 → 0.927820+0.019506
  • Croatia0.208387 → 0.227121+0.018735

Fell most

  • Greece0.198507 → 0.168588−0.029919
  • Hungary0.445289 → 0.416318−0.028971
  • Niger0.771317 → 0.746281−0.025036
  • Benin0.277996 → 0.254875−0.023121
  • Romania0.462841 → 0.440326−0.022515

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 2020.

  • 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) (2020). Arable Land per Person, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arable-land-per-person/2020

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07Questions

Arable Land per Person, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest arable land per person in Arable Land per Person, 2020?

Kazakhstan, at 1.516940, of the 206 countries in the file.

What year does Arable Land per Person, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Arable Land per Person, 2020 cover?

206.

Where can I download Arable Land per Person, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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