Dataset · FAO
Organic Agricultural Area
20 years, 2005–2024 · 156 countries · 3 measures
This is the share of a country's farmland under organic agriculture. It is the counterweight to the fertiliser and pesticide measures on this site: together they describe how intensively a country farms, from both ends.
This site holds every year from 2005 to 2024, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Organic Agricultural Area · the file
- Newest
- Organic Agricultural Area, 2024
- Held
- 20 years · 2,888 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0120 years
Every year
Every year comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2024Newest | 156 | −1 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2023 | 157 | +3 −1 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2022 | 155 | ±0 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2021 | 155 | +4 −1 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2020 | 152 | +1 −4 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2019 | 155 | −2 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2018 | 157 | +6 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2017 | 151 | +1 −2 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2016 | 152 | +3 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2015 | 149 | +4 −4 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2014 | 149 | +3 −4 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2013 | 150 | +5 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 20 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2012 | 145 | −1 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2011 | 146 | +4 −1 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2010 | 143 | −1 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2009 | 144 | +9 −2 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2008 | 137 | +14 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2007 | 123 | +12 −1 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2006 | 112 | +12 | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
| Organic Agricultural Area, 2005 | 100 | — | September 11, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: organic-agriculture-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 156 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 156 | 0 | |
Organic share of agricultural land (%)organic_shareHeadline | The headline figure: Organic share of agricultural land (%). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.007 share it86.38 | 113 | 0 | |
Organic area (1000 ha)organic_areaMeasure | Farmland under organic agriculture, certified plus in conversion, in thousands of hectares. | Number · up to 4 decimals | 0.003 share it53,016.06 | 149 | 0 | |
Certified organic area (1000 ha)certified_areaMeasure | Farmland fully converted and certified as organic, excluding land still in conversion, in thousands of hectares. | Number · up to 4 decimals | 0.0002 share it50,365.260 | 136 | 13 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03162 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 35 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 36 | 38 | 37 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 36 |
| Americas | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 28 |
| Asia | 39 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 42 |
| Europe | 41 | 41 | 40 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 |
| Oceania | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| All | 150 | 149 | 149 | 152 | 151 | 157 | 155 | 152 | 155 | 155 | 157 | 156 |
The newest 12 of 20 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2024
− Republic of the Congo
- 2023
+ Bahrain
+ Republic of the Congo
+ Niger
− Nicaragua
- 2021
+ Dominica
+ Liberia
+ Saint Lucia
+ Namibia
− Cabo Verde
- 2020
+ Venezuela
− Dominica
− Liberia
− Namibia
− Niger
- 2019
− Kiribati
− Lesotho
- 2018
+ Belarus
+ Liberia
+ Lesotho
+ Mongolia
+ Singapore
+ Uzbekistan
- 2017
+ Rwanda
− Angola
− Lesotho
- 2016
+ Angola
+ Albania
+ Oman
Not in this dataset · 63 places this site covers
FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Organic Agricultural Area 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 11, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
20 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as organic-agriculture-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/organic-agricultureA key for Environment & Sustainability in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
FAOSTAT's Land Use domain, read from the FAO's own bulk download.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 11, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Organic Agricultural Area, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Organic Agricultural Area, 2005–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/organic-agriculture
The publisher’s own citation: FAO. FAOSTAT. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Organic Agricultural Area: questions and answers
What is the Organic Agricultural Area?
This is the share of a country's farmland under organic agriculture. It is the counterweight to the fertiliser and pesticide measures on this site: together they describe how intensively a country farms, from both ends.
Which years of the Organic Agricultural Area can I download?
All 20, from 2005 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does FAO rank countries on it?
No. FAO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.