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Arable Land per Person, 2021

2021, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Arable Land per Person, 2021 covers 206 countries. Kazakhstan is highest, at 1.50275; Singapore is lowest, at 0.00010. The middle country reads 0.11334. Against 2020, 206 values changed (59 up, 147 down), the same countries are covered.

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Arable Land per Person · Data for 2021

HighestKazakhstan

1.50275

LowestSingapore

0.00010

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.50275
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.21723
3CanadaCANNorthern America1.00050
4ArgentinaARGSouth America0.93195
5RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.84043
6LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.81150
7UkraineUKREastern Europe0.74323
8LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.72274
9NigerNERWestern Africa0.72239
10MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.71538
11ParaguayPRYSouth America0.66357
12BelarusBLREastern Europe0.60456
13UruguayURYSouth America0.59793
14BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.53786
15EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.52595
16United StatesUSANorthern America0.45984
17BoliviaBOLSouth America0.45265
18RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.44911
19SudanSDNNorthern Africa0.43679
20HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.42983
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.40480
22DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.40244
23GuineaGINWestern Africa0.38270
24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe0.38263
25MaliMLIWestern Africa0.37256

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kazakhstan1.50275
  2. 2Australia1.21723
  3. 3Canada1.00050
  4. 4Argentina0.93195
  5. 5Russia0.84043

Lowest

  1. 206Singapore0.00010
  2. 205Hong Kong0.00027
  3. 204Faroe Islands0.00131
  4. 203Bahrain0.00140
  5. 202Seychelles0.00151

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.11334. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 206values changed, of 206 in both
  • 59 · 147rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Lesotho0.15449 → 0.09967−0.05482
  • Niger0.74628 → 0.72239−0.02389
  • Kazakhstan1.51694 → 1.50275−0.01419
  • Syria0.22141 → 0.20944−0.01197
  • Sudan0.44871 → 0.43679−0.01193

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 2021.

  • 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) (2021). Arable Land per Person, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arable-land-per-person/2021

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07Questions

Arable Land per Person, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest arable land per person in Arable Land per Person, 2021?

Kazakhstan, at 1.50275, of the 206 countries in the file.

What year does Arable Land per Person, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Arable Land per Person, 2021 cover?

206.

Where can I download Arable Land per Person, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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