Arable land (% of land area) - Land use - Environment - World Development Indicators

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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.

Rank	Country	Value
Arable land (% of land area) - Land use - Environment - World Development Indicators (2007)
1	Bangladesh	61.23
2	Ukraine	55.99
3	Moldova	55.34
4	Denmark	54.35
5	India	53.36
6	Hungary	51.24
7	Rwanda	48.64
8	Togo	45.23
9	Mauritius	44.33
10	Comoros	43.01
11	South Asia	41.92
12	Poland	41.09
13	Nigeria	40.08
14	Czech Republic	39.25
15	Burundi	38.75
16	Serbia	37.34
17	Barbados	37.21
18	Romania	37.20
19	Gambia	34.80
20	Germany	34.05
21	France	33.66
22	El Salvador	32.92
23	Haiti	32.66
24	Cuba	32.54
25	Malawi	31.89
26	Netherlands	31.37
27	Thailand	29.75
28	Lithuania	29.28
29	Slovakia	28.63
30	Turkey	28.49
31	Bulgaria	28.41
32	Uganda	27.90
33	Pakistan	27.89
34	Belgium	27.74
35	Kosovo	27.56
36	Belarus	27.28
37	Syria	25.79
38	Spain	25.45
39	United Kingdom	25.15
40	Liechtenstein	25
41	Malta	25
42	Euro area	24.76
43	Benin	24.41
44	Italy	24.38
45	Luxembourg	23.55
46	Azerbaijan	22.44
47	Cambodia	21.53
48	Albania	21.09
49	Tonga	20.83
50	Vietnam	20.48
51	Bermuda	20
52	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.96
53	Greece	19.77
54	Latvia	19.08
55	Burkina Faso	19.01
56	Mayotte	18.72
57	United States	18.60
58	Antigua and Barbuda	18.18
59	West Bank and Gaza	18.11
60	Morocco	18.07
61	Ghana	18.02
62	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	17.95
63	Channel Islands	17.89
64	Tunisia	17.75
65	Philippines	17.10
66	Lower middle income	16.99
67	Dominican Republic	16.97
68	Macedonia	16.95
69	Austria	16.76
70	San Marino	16.67
71	North Korea	16.48
72	South Korea	16.48
73	Nepal	16.44
74	Nicaragua	16.25
75	Burma	16.18
76	Jamaica	16.07
77	Croatia	15.80
78	Senegal	15.50
79	Ireland	15.39
80	St. Kitts and Nevis	15.38
81	China	15.08
82	Sri Lanka	15.01
83	Guatemala	14.71
84	Armenia	14.40
85	Israel	14.19
86	Estonia	14.11
87	Lebanon	14.10
88	Ethiopia	14.04
89	Maldives	13.33
90	East Asia & Pacific	13.31
91	Afghanistan	13.08
92	Montenegro	12.94
93	Cameroon	12.61
94	Mexico	12.60
95	Sierra Leone	12.57
96	Cyprus	12.45
97	Cape Verde	12.41
98	Isle of Man	12.28
99	Indonesia	12.14
100	South Africa	11.94
101	Iraq	11.89
102	Argentina	11.88
103	Japan	11.87
104	Portugal	11.84
105	Niger	11.62
106	Middle income	11.56
107	High income: OECD	11.44
108	Timor-Leste	11.43
109	Marshall Islands	11.11
110	Aruba	11.11
111	Low & middle income	11
112	Europe & Central Asia	10.83
113	Paraguay	10.82
114	High income	10.70
115	Guinea-Bissau	10.67
116	Iran	10.36
117	Swaziland	10.35
118	Switzerland	10.20
119	Tanzania	10.16
120	Uzbekistan	10.11
121	Netherlands Antilles	10
122	American Samoa	10
123	Lesotho	9.88
124	Honduras	9.55
125	Sao Tome and Principe	9.38
126	Fiji	9.30
127	Kenya	9.14
128	Guinea	8.95
129	Samoa	8.83
130	Ivory Coast	8.81
131	Slovenia	8.79
132	Low income	8.71
133	Kazakhstan	8.41
134	Zimbabwe	8.35
135	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.31
136	Sudan	8.13
137	Upper middle income	7.89
138	Least developed countries: UN classification	7.87
139	Uruguay	7.71
140	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	7.47
141	Russia	7.42
142	Finland	7.41
143	Latin America & Caribbean	7.38
144	Panama	7.37
145	Zambia	7.08
146	Brazil	7.03
147	Puerto Rico	6.99
148	Dominica	6.67
149	Kyrgyzstan	6.67
150	Georgia	6.66
151	Sweden	6.44
152	Eritrea	6.34
153	Middle East & North Africa	5.97
154	Grenada	5.88
155	Australia	5.75
156	Mozambique	5.66
157	Malaysia	5.48
158	Laos	5.07
159	Madagascar	5.07
160	Tajikistan	5.07
161	Canada	4.96
162	St. Lucia	4.92
163	Trinidad and Tobago	4.87
164	Equatorial Guinea	4.63
165	Ecuador	4.32
166	Liberia	4
167	Mali	3.97
168	Turkmenistan	3.94
169	Costa Rica	3.92
170	Cayman Islands	3.85
171	Micronesia	3.57
172	Chad	3.41
173	Bolivia	3.33
174	Bhutan	3.33
175	New Zealand	3.23
176	Algeria	3.14
177	Central African Republic	3.09
178	Belize	3.07
179	Egypt	3.03
180	Venezuela	3
181	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.96
182	Peru	2.89
183	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	2.86
184	Bahrain	2.82
185	Norway	2.81
186	Angola	2.65
187	Yemen	2.60
188	Kiribati	2.47
189	High income: nonOECD	2.23
190	Seychelles	2.17
191	Palau	2.17
192	Northern Mariana Islands	2.17
193	Faroe Islands	2.14
194	Andorra	2.13
195	Guyana	2.13
196	Guam	1.85
197	Colombia	1.80
198	Chile	1.74
199	Saudi Arabia	1.70
200	Vanuatu	1.64
201	Jordan	1.59
202	Somalia	1.59
203	Qatar	1.55
204	Republic of the Congo	1.45
205	Gabon	1.26
206	Libya	0.99
207	Namibia	0.97
208	Singapore	0.86
209	Kuwait	0.84
210	United Arab Emirates	0.84
211	French Polynesia	0.82
212	Bahamas	0.80
213	Brunei Darussalam	0.57
214	Solomon Islands	0.57
215	Papua New Guinea	0.55
216	Mongolia	0.55
217	New Caledonia	0.49
218	Mauritania	0.44
219	Botswana	0.44
220	Suriname	0.37
221	Oman	0.19
222	Iceland	0.07
223	Djibouti	0.06

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