Agricultural land (hectares) - Ag. & rural development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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Agricultural area refers to: (a) arable land - land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted only once), temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow (less than five years). The abandoned land resulting from shifting cultivation is not included in this category. Data for arable land are not meant to indicate the amount of land that is potentially cultivable; (b) permanent crops - land cultivated with crops that occupy the land for long periods and need not be replanted after each harvest, such as cocoa, coffee and rubber; this category includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber; and (c) permanent pastures - land used permanently (five years or more) for herbaceous forage crops, either cultivated or growing wild (wild prairie or grazing land). Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, Production Yearbook and data files.
Agricultural land (hectares) - Ag. & rural development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2007)

Rank

Country

Value
1Africa1,152,403,300
2Sub-Saharan Africa1,052,277,300
3Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa952,899,300
4Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria874,399,300
5Sudan136,773,000
6North Africa100,126,000
7South Africa99,378,000
8Nigeria78,500,000
9Angola57,590,000
10Chad49,330,000
11Mozambique48,800,000
12Somalia44,027,000
13Niger43,515,000
14Algeria41,252,000
15Madagascar40,843,000
16Mauritania39,712,000
17Mali39,619,000
18Namibia38,805,000
19Ethiopia35,077,000
20Tanzania34,200,000
21Morocco29,960,000
22Kenya27,000,000
23Botswana25,852,000
24Zambia25,589,000
25Democratic Republic of the Congo22,650,000
26Ivory Coast20,200,000
27Libya15,550,000
28Zimbabwe15,450,000
29Ghana14,850,000
30Guinea13,570,000
31Uganda12,812,000
32Burkina Faso11,260,000
33Republic of the Congo10,545,000
34Tunisia9,826,000
35Cameroon9,160,000
36Senegal8,637,000
37Eritrea7,542,000
38Central African Republic5,205,000
39Gabon5,160,000
40Malawi4,970,000
41Togo3,630,000
42Egypt3,538,000
43Benin3,520,000
44Sierra Leone3,180,000
45Liberia2,600,000
46Lesotho2,304,000
47Burundi2,295,000
48Rwanda1,925,000
49Djibouti1,701,300
50Guinea-Bissau1,630,000
51Swaziland1,342,000
52Gambia813,000
53Equatorial Guinea324,000
54Comoros150,000
55Mauritius101,000
56Cape Verde78,000
57Sao Tome and Principe57,000
58Seychelles6,000
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