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Arable Land per Person, 2023

2023, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Arable Land per Person, 2023 covers 206 countries. Kazakhstan is highest, at 1.459397; Singapore is lowest, at 0.000095. The middle country reads 0.108619. Against 2022, 206 values changed (45 up, 161 down), the same countries are covered.

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Arable Land per Person · Data for 2023

HighestKazakhstan

1.459397

LowestSingapore

0.000095

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, 2023, 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, 2023: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.459397
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.162407
3CanadaCANNorthern America0.952606
4ArgentinaARGSouth America0.886885
5UkraineUKREastern Europe0.872556
6RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.845806
7LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.801996
8MoldovaMDAEastern Europe0.761255
9LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.721979
10NigerNERWestern Africa0.676609
11ParaguayPRYSouth America0.666409
12UruguayURYSouth America0.649217
13BelarusBLREastern Europe0.606627
14BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.540836
15EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.518870
16BoliviaBOLSouth America0.454304
17United StatesUSANorthern America0.450071
18RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.441056
19HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.432034
20SudanSDNNorthern Africa0.419541
21GuineaGINWestern Africa0.416515
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.401869
23DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.397683
24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe0.393013
25MaliMLIWestern Africa0.350917

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kazakhstan1.459397
  2. 2Australia1.162407
  3. 3Canada0.952606
  4. 4Argentina0.886885
  5. 5Ukraine0.872556

Lowest

  1. 206Singapore0.000095
  2. 205Hong Kong0.000265
  3. 204Seychelles0.001252
  4. 203Faroe Islands0.001287
  5. 202Bahrain0.001332

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.108619. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 206values changed, of 206 in both
  • 45 · 161rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Ukraine0.802070 → 0.872556+0.070485
  • Lesotho0.118717 → 0.154338+0.035621
  • Uruguay0.623870 → 0.649217+0.025347
  • Moldova0.737942 → 0.761255+0.023313
  • Guinea0.394865 → 0.416515+0.021649

Fell most

  • Argentina0.949152 → 0.886885−0.062267
  • Australia1.201635 → 1.162407−0.039228
  • Canada0.984490 → 0.952606−0.031884
  • Niger0.699274 → 0.676609−0.022665
  • Kazakhstan1.480922 → 1.459397−0.021525

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 2023.

  • 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) (2023). Arable Land per Person, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arable-land-per-person/2023

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07Questions

Arable Land per Person, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest arable land per person in Arable Land per Person, 2023?

Kazakhstan, at 1.459397, of the 206 countries in the file.

What year does Arable Land per Person, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Arable Land per Person, 2023 cover?

206.

Where can I download Arable Land per Person, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-06, when it was read from the publisher.

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