Total agricultural land use per person by country

Countries reporting
202
Highest
352.79
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Lowest
0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
Median
0.3626
Years covered
1026
1000–2025
Data points
21,784

What the numbers show

Total agricultural land use per person is currently reported for 202 countries. The highest value is 352.79 in Falkland Islands (Malvinas); the lowest is 0 in Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.3626, and the mean is 2.83.

Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 172 fell. The largest increase was in Lesotho, Kingdom of (up 24.1%), and the largest decrease in Taiwan Province of China (down 100.0%).

Total agricultural land use per person: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 352.79 2025 down 1.2% rising
1 Montserrat, United Kingdom-British Overseas Territory 0.5622 2025 down 4.0% rising
2 Mongolia 33.85 2025 down 12.2% falling
2 Mayotte 0 2025 flat
2 Anguilla, United Kingdom-British Overseas Territory 0 2025 flat
3 Namibia 14.18 2025 down 12.0% volatile
4 Australia 12.43 2025 down 8.6% volatile
5 Kazakhstan, Republic of 11.74 2025 down 9.2% volatile
6 Botswana 10.39 2025 down 11.4% volatile
7 Mauritania, Islamic Republic of 8.54 2025 down 16.9% volatile
8 Turkmenistan 6.73 2025 up 6.5% falling
9 Western Sahara 6.57 2025 down 18.0% volatile
10 Iceland 4.79 2025 down 11.9% falling
11 Uruguay 4.09 2025 down 3.9% rising
12 Somalia 3.61 2025 down 15.8% falling
13 Saudi Arabia 3.6 2025 down 18.9% volatile
14 Bolivia 3.28 2025 down 8.9% falling
15 Chad 2.8 2025 down 22.0% volatile
16 Argentina 2.7 2025 down 5.3% volatile
17 Sudan 2.68 2025 down 22.0% falling
18 Paraguay 2.11 2025 down 10.4% rising
19 Libya 1.95 2025 down 12.4% falling
20 Mali 1.9 2025 down 19.0% volatile
21 New Zealand 1.85 2025 down 20.6% volatile
22 Niger 1.8 2025 down 26.3% falling
23 Congo, Republic of 1.73 2025 down 18.4% volatile
24 Kyrgyz Republic 1.73 2025 down 8.7% falling
25 South Africa 1.69 2025 down 7.7% rising
26 Djibouti 1.59 2025 down 13.4% volatile
27 Russian Federation 1.53 2025 up 2.4% falling
28 Canada 1.42 2025 down 11.9% volatile
29 Madagascar, Republic of 1.42 2025 down 19.6% falling
30 Guinea 1.4 2025 down 6.0% volatile
31 Guyana 1.35 2025 down 1.6% rising
32 Mozambique, Republic of 1.29 2025 down 12.6% falling
33 Angola 1.29 2025 down 21.6% falling
34 Eritrea, The State of 1.27 2025 down 20.3% falling
35 Brazil 1.26 2025 up 3.0% rising
36 Zambia 1.24 2025 down 21.3% volatile
37 United States 1.2 2025 down 7.3% falling
38 Zimbabwe 1.14 2025 down 4.9% volatile
39 Central African Republic 1.13 2025 up 7.6% falling
40 Côte d'Ivoire 1.12 2025 down 1.6% volatile
41 Ukraine 0.9829 2025 up 4.6% falling
42 Gabon 0.9502 2025 down 16.3% falling
43 Lithuania 0.9258 2025 up 0.3% volatile
44 Latvia 0.9159 2025 up 4.5% falling
45 Algeria 0.9139 2025 down 12.6% falling
46 Eswatini, Kingdom of 0.8645 2025 down 10.4% volatile
47 Belarus, Republic of 0.859 2025 down 5.5% falling
48 Morocco 0.8545 2025 down 5.4% volatile
49 Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of 0.8375 2025 down 19.4% falling
50 Uzbekistan, Republic of 0.8246 2025 down 6.7% volatile
51 Tunisia 0.8193 2025 down 8.5% volatile
52 Ireland 0.7937 2025 down 13.4% falling
53 Nicaragua 0.7772 2025 down 7.3% falling
54 Moldova, Republic of 0.7603 2025 up 10.6% volatile
55 Bulgaria 0.7519 2025 up 7.7% volatile
56 Estonia, Republic of 0.7518 2025 up 1.0% volatile
57 Colombia 0.7407 2025 down 18.0% falling
58 Mexico 0.7348 2025 down 9.3% volatile
59 Peru 0.7117 2025 down 1.4% falling
60 Yemen, Republic of 0.65 2025 down 22.3% volatile
61 Burkina Faso 0.6318 2025 down 14.6% volatile
62 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.6288 2025 up 8.2% volatile
63 Venezuela, República Bolivariana de 0.6137 2025 down 11.2% volatile
64 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.6077 2025 down 18.5% volatile
65 New Caledonia 0.5965 2025 down 12.3% volatile
66 Cuba 0.5953 2025 up 6.9% rising
67 Romania 0.5949 2025 down 9.3% volatile
68 North Macedonia, Republic of 0.5792 2025 down 3.9% volatile
69 Armenia, Republic of 0.5613 2025 up 8.1% volatile
70 Senegal 0.5605 2025 down 15.6% volatile
71 Iran, Islamic Republic of 0.5544 2025 down 5.3% falling
72 Spain 0.5411 2025 down 3.5% falling
73 Syrian Arab Republic 0.5235 2025 down 15.3% volatile
74 Belize 0.5185 2025 up 4.7% falling
75 Panama 0.5107 2025 down 12.0% falling
76 Kenya 0.5056 2025 down 18.6% volatile
77 Chile 0.502 2025 down 31.5% falling
78 Bhutan 0.4982 2025 down 24.5% volatile
79 Hungary 0.498 2025 down 9.8% volatile
80 Tajikistan, Republic of 0.4969 2025 down 4.6% volatile
81 Sierra Leone 0.4912 2025 down 18.0% volatile
82 Vanuatu 0.4893 2025 down 13.6% volatile
83 Togo 0.4852 2025 down 15.5% volatile
84 Greece 0.4791 2025 down 12.7% falling
85 St. Pierre and Miquelon 0.4607 2025 up 4.2% volatile
86 Azerbaijan, Republic of 0.4606 2025 down 6.7% volatile
87 Türkiye, Republic of 0.4602 2025 down 8.2% volatile
88 Georgia 0.4503 2025 down 21.0% volatile
89 Denmark 0.4391 2025 down 5.3% volatile
90 France 0.411 2025 down 7.4% volatile
91 Oman 0.3981 2025 down 14.4% volatile
92 Finland 0.3945 2025 down 4.7% falling
93 Cambodia 0.3944 2025 up 3.8% flat
94 Ghana 0.3919 2025 down 13.9% volatile
95 Portugal 0.3914 2025 up 11.7% falling
96 Benin 0.3875 2025 down 1.5% falling
97 Honduras 0.3855 2025 down 2.7% falling
98 China, People's Republic of 0.3835 2025 down 1.4% falling
99 Poland 0.3707 2025 down 1.1% falling
100 Myanmar 0.364 2025 down 3.2% rising
101 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 0.3612 2025 down 14.7% falling
102 Cameroon 0.354 2025 down 17.1% falling
103 Lesotho, Kingdom of 0.3406 2025 up 24.1% falling
104 Fiji, Republic of 0.3403 2025 down 4.4% volatile
105 Guinea-Bissau 0.3358 2025 down 29.3% falling
106 Albania 0.334 2025 down 7.8% volatile
107 Croatia, Republic of 0.3333 2025 down 5.2% volatile
108 Tonga 0.3306 2025 down 3.2% falling
109 Slovak Republic 0.3298 2025 down 2.4% volatile
110 Ecuador 0.3289 2025 down 11.1% falling
111 Thailand 0.3264 2025 up 1.4% rising
112 Czech Republic 0.3171 2025 down 3.3% volatile
113 Costa Rica 0.3132 2025 down 12.6% falling
114 Nigeria 0.313 2025 down 16.6% falling
115 Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of 0.3108 2025 down 16.6% falling
116 Slovenia, Republic of 0.2917 2025 down 2.5% volatile
117 Liberia 0.2903 2025 down 22.1% volatile
118 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.2895 2025 down 20.2% falling
119 Austria 0.2876 2025 down 9.5% volatile
120 Sweden 0.283 2025 down 8.6% volatile
121 Uganda 0.2735 2025 down 25.2% volatile
122 Malawi 0.2688 2025 down 17.8% volatile
123 Gambia, The 0.2649 2025 down 19.5% volatile
124 Guatemala 0.2463 2025 down 11.4% falling
125 Malaysia 0.2445 2025 down 12.5% falling
126 United Kingdom 0.2431 2025 down 9.0% volatile
127 Andorra, Principality of 0.2402 2025 down 0.4% volatile
128 Indonesia 0.2284 2025 up 0.2% falling
129 Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of 0.2252 2025 down 17.3% falling
130 Samoa 0.2175 2025 down 44.3% volatile
131 Dominican Republic 0.2097 2025 down 9.1% flat
132 Iraq 0.2091 2025 down 18.3% volatile
133 Italy 0.209 2025 down 2.3% volatile
134 Germany 0.2028 2025 down 0.6% volatile
135 São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of 0.1853 2025 down 4.6% volatile
136 Switzerland 0.1789 2025 down 7.1% volatile
137 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.1788 2025 down 16.0% volatile
138 Norway 0.1719 2025 down 10.1% volatile
139 Burundi 0.1708 2025 down 9.4% falling
140 Solomon Islands 0.1588 2025 down 17.7% falling
141 American Samoa 0.1582 2025 down 12.5% volatile
142 Papua New Guinea 0.158 2025 down 9.8% volatile
143 Pakistan 0.1576 2025 down 17.1% volatile
144 El Salvador 0.1479 2025 down 1.1% volatile
145 Lebanon 0.1471 2025 down 2.9% volatile
146 Jamaica 0.1459 2025 down 1.1% rising
147 Jordan 0.1436 2025 up 1.6% volatile
148 Haiti 0.1424 2025 down 27.5% volatile
149 Cabo Verde 0.137 2025 down 7.6% falling
150 French Guiana 0.136 2025 up 12.9% volatile
151 Rwanda 0.1354 2025 down 17.8% volatile
152 Dominica 0.1318 2025 down 4.6% volatile
153 Liechtenstein, Principality of 0.1296 2025 down 7.2% volatile
154 Comoros, Union of the 0.1289 2025 down 15.1% volatile
155 St. Kitts and Nevis 0.1268 2025 down 9.0% rising
156 Vietnam 0.1258 2025 down 4.6% falling
157 Sri Lanka 0.1226 2025 down 3.1% falling
158 India 0.1215 2025 down 11.4% falling
159 Philippines 0.1082 2025 down 12.5% falling
160 Suriname 0.1038 2025 down 34.5% volatile
161 Netherlands 0.102 2025 down 6.4% volatile
162 Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 0.1011 2025 down 4.4% volatile
163 Luxembourg 0.1005 2025 down 63.0% volatile
164 Nepal 0.0948 2025 down 22.3% falling
165 Guadeloupe 0.0943 2025 down 23.8% rising
166 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0923 2025 down 4.4% volatile
167 Cyprus 0.092 2025 down 15.7% volatile
168 Belgium 0.0782 2025 down 43.3% volatile
169 Grenada 0.0765 2025 down 11.2% rising
170 Equatorial Guinea, Republic of 0.0718 2025 down 20.5% volatile
171 Martinique 0.0711 2025 down 8.0% rising
172 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.069 2025 down 0.2% rising
173 United States Virgin Islands 0.0589 2025 down 22.2% volatile
174 Bangladesh 0.0553 2025 down 5.0% volatile
175 St. Lucia 0.0539 2025 down 3.9% rising
176 Puerto Rico 0.0475 2025 down 4.6% volatile
177 Israel 0.0396 2025 down 3.4% volatile
178 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0395 2025 down 1.2% volatile
179 Egypt, Arab Republic of 0.0388 2025 down 4.6% falling
180 Réunion 0.0385 2025 down 30.5% volatile
181 Kuwait 0.0376 2025 down 20.4% volatile
182 Japan 0.0371 2025 down 3.8% falling
183 Barbados 0.0357 2025 down 7.8% rising
184 United Arab Emirates 0.0327 2025 down 20.7% volatile
185 Bahamas, The 0.032 2025 down 8.0% volatile
186 Korea 0.031 2025 down 12.9% volatile
187 Brunei Darussalam 0.0272 2025 down 13.3% volatile
188 Qatar 0.0264 2025 down 19.7% volatile
189 Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands 0.0188 2025 down 50.9% volatile
190 Mauritius 0.0171 2025 down 43.1% volatile
191 Malta 0.016 2025 down 33.5% volatile
192 Bahrain, Kingdom of 0.0038 2025 down 27.7% volatile
193 Faroe Islands 0 2025 volatile
193 Greenland 0 2025 flat
193 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China 0 2025 flat
193 Singapore 0 2025 volatile
193 Taiwan Province of China 0 2025 down 100.0% volatile
193 Netherlands Antilles 0 2025 volatile
193 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands 0 2025 flat

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Total agricultural land use per person by country. Statizoid, drawing on Our World in Data. Retrieved 18 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/total-agricultural-land-use-per-person/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/total-agricultural-land-use-per-person/">Total agricultural land use per person by country</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Total agricultural land use per person
Source
Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
202 places, 21,784 data points, 1000–2025
Last refreshed