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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.

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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.

2005bar height: countries covered, up to 1572024
Every year of Organic Agricultural Area held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Organic Agricultural Area, 2024Newest156−1September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2023157+3 −1September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2022155±0September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2021155+4 −1September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2020152+1 −4September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2019155−2September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2018157+6September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2017151+1 −2September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2016152+3September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2015149+4 −4September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2014149+3 −4September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2013150+5September 11, 2026CSV
Show all 20 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Organic Agricultural Area, 2012145−1September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2011146+4 −1September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2010143−1September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2009144+9 −2September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2008137+14September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2007123+12 −1September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2006112+12September 11, 2026CSV
Organic Agricultural Area, 2005100—September 11, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of Organic Agricultural Area: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1560
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1560
Organic share of agricultural land (%)organic_shareHeadlineThe headline figure: Organic share of agricultural land (%).Number · up to 2 decimals0.007 share it86.38Samoamiddle 0.731130
Organic area (1000 ha)organic_areaMeasureFarmland under organic agriculture, certified plus in conversion, in thousands of hectares.Number · up to 4 decimals0.003 share it53,016.06Australiamiddle 26.951490
Certified organic area (1000 ha)certified_areaMeasureFarmland fully converted and certified as organic, excluding land still in conversion, in thousands of hectares.Number · up to 4 decimals0.0002 share it50,365.260Australiamiddle 26.35013613

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Organic Agricultural Area, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa353636373638373435353736
Americas272727272727272729292828
Asia393637383841414141414242
Europe414140414142424242424242
Oceania899999888888
All150149149152151157155152155155157156

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

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Organic Agricultural Area 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 11, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    20 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as organic-agriculture-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 11, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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.

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