What is the difference in agricultural land use between Lesotho and Moldova?

79,250 hectares, with Moldova ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Lesotho and Moldova?

32 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Agricultural land use. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Lesotho vs Moldova: Agricultural land use

Lesotho

2.36 million hectares

in 2023

Moldova

2.44 million hectares

in 2023

Lesotho rank

114th

Moldova rank

112th

Agricultural land use over time

Lesotho
Moldova

How they compare

Moldova currently reports 2.44 million hectares against 2.36 million hectares in Lesotho, a difference of 79,250 hectares.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Moldova ahead.

Lesotho ranks 114th and Moldova ranks 112th of 227 countries.

Moldova has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Lesotho	Moldova	Difference	Ahead
1990s	2.33 million hectares	2.56 million hectares	227,375 hectares	Moldova
2000s	2.33 million hectares	2.51 million hectares	183,300 hectares	Moldova
2010s	2.30 million hectares	2.36 million hectares	59,850 hectares	Moldova
2020s	2.30 million hectares	2.46 million hectares	157,538 hectares	Moldova

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher agricultural land use, Lesotho or Moldova?: Moldova, at 2.44 million hectares against 2.36 million hectares in Lesotho as of 2023.
What is the difference in agricultural land use between Lesotho and Moldova?: 79,250 hectares, with Moldova ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Lesotho and Moldova?: 32 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2023.
How do Lesotho and Moldova rank globally for agricultural land use?: Lesotho ranks 114th and Moldova ranks 112th of 227 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Agricultural land use. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Agricultural land use
Unit: hectares
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 228 places, 13,212 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed: 18 September 2026

Land used for cultivation of crops and animal husbandry. The total of areas under cropland and permanent meadows and pastures.