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Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, Production Yearbook and data files.

Rank	Country	Value
Arable land (% of land area) - Ag. & rural development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2007)
1	Rwanda	48.64
2	Togo	45.23
3	Mauritius	44.33
4	Comoros	42.99
5	Nigeria	40.08
6	Burundi	38.75
7	Gambia	34.80
8	Malawi	31.89
9	Uganda	27.90
10	Benin	24.41
11	Burkina Faso	19.01
12	Morocco	18.07
13	Ghana	18.02
14	Tunisia	17.75
15	Senegal	15.50
16	Ethiopia	14.04
17	Cameroon	12.81
18	Sierra Leone	12.57
19	Cape Verde	12.41
20	South Africa	11.94
21	Niger	11.62
22	Guinea-Bissau	10.67
23	Swaziland	10.35
24	Tanzania	10.16
25	Lesotho	9.88
26	Sao Tome and Principe	9.38
27	Kenya	9.14
28	Guinea	8.95
29	Ivory Coast	8.81
30	Zimbabwe	8.35
31	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.30
32	Sudan	8.13
33	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa	8.10
34	Africa	7.46
35	Zambia	7.08
36	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria	6.75
37	Eritrea	6.34
38	Mozambique	5.66
39	Madagascar	5.07
40	Equatorial Guinea	4.63
41	North Africa	4.02
42	Liberia	4
43	Mali	3.97
44	Chad	3.41
45	Algeria	3.14
46	Central African Republic	3.09
47	Egypt	3.03
48	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.96
49	Angola	2.65
50	Seychelles	2.17
51	Somalia	1.59
52	Republic of the Congo	1.45
53	Gabon	1.26
54	Libya	0.99
55	Namibia	0.97
56	Botswana	0.44
57	Mauritania	0.44
58	Djibouti	0.06

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