Arable land (hectares per person) - Land use - Environment - World Development Indicators

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Arable land (hectares per person) 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.

Rank	Country	Value
Arable land (hectares per person) - Land use - Environment - World Development Indicators (2007)
1	Australia	2.10
2	Kazakhstan	1.47
3	Canada	1.37
4	Niger	1.04
5	Russia	0.86
6	Argentina	0.82
7	Ukraine	0.70
8	Paraguay	0.70
9	Belarus	0.57
10	United States	0.57
11	Europe & Central Asia	0.57
12	Guyana	0.55
13	Lithuania	0.54
14	Latvia	0.52
15	Moldova	0.50
16	Sudan	0.48
17	Hungary	0.46
18	Serbia	0.45
19	Estonia	0.45
20	Central African Republic	0.45
21	Finland	0.43
22	Zambia	0.43
23	Denmark	0.42
24	Uruguay	0.41
25	Chad	0.40
26	Romania	0.40
27	Bulgaria	0.40
28	Upper middle income	0.39
29	Togo	0.39
30	Mali	0.39
31	Namibia	0.38
32	Bolivia	0.38
33	Turkmenistan	0.37
34	High income: OECD	0.36
35	Burkina Faso	0.35
36	Nicaragua	0.35
37	High income	0.34
38	Mongolia	0.33
39	Poland	0.33
40	Cameroon	0.32
41	Cuba	0.32
42	Benin	0.32
43	Brazil	0.31
44	Turkey	0.30
45	France	0.30
46	Afghanistan	0.30
47	South Africa	0.30
48	Czech Republic	0.29
49	Sweden	0.29
50	Montenegro	0.28
51	Spain	0.28
52	Libya	0.28
53	Tunisia	0.27
54	Cambodia	0.27
55	Latin America & Caribbean	0.27
56	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.27
57	Slovakia	0.26
58	Zimbabwe	0.26
59	Morocco	0.26
60	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	0.25
61	Nigeria	0.25
62	Senegal	0.25
63	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.25
64	Ireland	0.24
65	Syria	0.24
66	Kyrgyzstan	0.24
67	Iran	0.24
68	Mexico	0.23
69	Greece	0.23
70	Thailand	0.23
71	Guinea	0.23
72	Gabon	0.23
73	Belize	0.22
74	Tanzania	0.22
75	Azerbaijan	0.22
76	Algeria	0.22
77	Burma	0.22
78	Gambia	0.22
79	Macedonia	0.21
80	Malawi	0.21
81	New Zealand	0.20
82	Fiji	0.20
83	Least developed countries: UN classification	0.20
84	Mozambique	0.20
85	Equatorial Guinea	0.20
86	Angola	0.19
87	Bhutan	0.19
88	Croatia	0.19
89	Guinea-Bissau	0.19
90	Low & middle income	0.19
91	Middle income	0.19
92	Euro area	0.19
93	Laos	0.19
94	Albania	0.18
95	Norway	0.18
96	Ethiopia	0.18
97	Uganda	0.18
98	Ghana	0.18
99	Low income	0.17
100	Iraq	0.17
101	Austria	0.17
102	Kosovo	0.17
103	Sierra Leone	0.17
104	Middle East & North Africa	0.16
105	Timor-Leste	0.16
106	Madagascar	0.16
107	Panama	0.16
108	Uzbekistan	0.16
109	Swaziland	0.15
110	Honduras	0.15
111	Lesotho	0.15
112	Tonga	0.15
113	Saudi Arabia	0.14
114	India	0.14
115	Kenya	0.14
116	Republic of the Congo	0.14
117	Germany	0.14
118	Ivory Coast	0.14
119	Mauritania	0.14
120	Lower middle income	0.14
121	Samoa	0.14
122	Rwanda	0.13
123	Eritrea	0.13
124	Luxembourg	0.13
125	Peru	0.13
126	Pakistan	0.13
127	Botswana	0.13
128	Armenia	0.13
129	Burundi	0.13
130	Comoros	0.13
131	Cyprus	0.13
132	South Asia	0.13
133	Italy	0.12
134	Guatemala	0.12
135	Liechtenstein	0.11
136	East Asia & Pacific	0.11
137	Liberia	0.11
138	Tajikistan	0.11
139	China	0.11
140	Georgia	0.11
141	El Salvador	0.11
142	Somalia	0.11
143	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.11
144	Suriname	0.11
145	United Kingdom	0.10
146	Portugal	0.10
147	Indonesia	0.10
148	Cape Verde	0.10
149	Venezuela	0.10
150	Antigua and Barbuda	0.09
151	High income: nonOECD	0.09
152	Isle of Man	0.09
153	Ecuador	0.09
154	Haiti	0.09
155	Slovenia	0.09
156	Vanuatu	0.09
157	Belgium	0.08
158	Dominican Republic	0.08
159	Chile	0.08
160	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.08
161	Nepal	0.08
162	Malaysia	0.07
163	Jamaica	0.07
164	Dominica	0.07
165	Mauritius	0.07
166	Vietnam	0.07
167	Sao Tome and Principe	0.06
168	Faroe Islands	0.06
169	Netherlands	0.06
170	Barbados	0.06
171	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.06
172	Philippines	0.06
173	Yemen	0.06
174	Bangladesh	0.05
175	Colombia	0.05
176	Switzerland	0.05
177	Sri Lanka	0.05
178	Palau	0.05
179	Israel	0.04
180	Mayotte	0.04
181	Costa Rica	0.04
182	Egypt	0.04
183	Netherlands Antilles	0.04
184	New Caledonia	0.04
185	Papua New Guinea	0.04
186	San Marino	0.03
187	Japan	0.03
188	North Korea	0.03
189	Marshall Islands	0.03
190	American Samoa	0.03
191	Solomon Islands	0.03
192	Lebanon	0.03
193	South Korea	0.03
194	West Bank and Gaza	0.03
195	Bahamas	0.02
196	Malta	0.02
197	Jordan	0.02
198	Trinidad and Tobago	0.02
199	Kiribati	0.02
200	Oman	0.02
201	Puerto Rico	0.02
202	Qatar	0.02
203	Iceland	0.02
204	Grenada	0.02
205	Aruba	0.02
206	Cayman Islands	0.02
207	Channel Islands	0.02
208	Bermuda	0.02
209	United Arab Emirates	0.02
210	Micronesia	0.02
211	St. Lucia	0.02
212	Brunei Darussalam	0.01
213	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	0.01
214	Kuwait	0.01
215	Maldives	0.01
216	Guam	0.01
217	Andorra	0.01
218	French Polynesia	0.01
219	Northern Mariana Islands	0.01
220	Seychelles	0.01
221	Bahrain	0
222	Singapore	0
223	Djibouti	0

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