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Arable land (in hectares) 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.
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Countries
Amount
Date
# 1
United States :
188,755,000 hectares
1978
American Agriculture
# 2
India :
163,635,000 hectares
1978
Indian Agriculture
# 3
Russia :
137,203,800 hectares
1978
Russian Agriculture
# 4
China :
103,397,000 hectares
1978
Chinese Agriculture
# 5
Canada :
44,025,000 hectares
1978
Canadian Agriculture
# 6
Brazil :
44,000,000 hectares
1978
Brazilian Agriculture
# 7
Australia :
42,518,000 hectares
1978
Australian Agriculture
# 8
Kazakhstan :
36,434,750 hectares
1978
Kazakhstani Agriculture
# 9
Ukraine :
34,675,120 hectares
1978
Ukrainian Agriculture
# 10
Nigeria :
27,730,000 hectares
1978
Nigerian Agriculture
# 11
Argentina :
26,000,000 hectares
1978
Argentine Agriculture
# 12
Turkey :
25,123,000 hectares
1978
Turkish Agriculture
# 13
Mexico :
22,740,000 hectares
1978
Mexican Agriculture
# 14
Pakistan :
19,713,000 hectares
1978
Pakistani Agriculture
# 15
Indonesia :
18,000,000 hectares
1978
Indonesian Agriculture
# 16
France :
17,353,000 hectares
1978
French Agriculture
# 17
Thailand :
16,108,000 hectares
1978
Thai Agriculture
# 18
Spain :
15,640,000 hectares
1978
Spanish Agriculture
# 19
Poland :
14,709,000 hectares
1978
Polish Agriculture
# 20
Iran :
14,192,000 hectares
1978
Iranian Agriculture
# 21
Ethiopia :
13,060,000 hectares
1978
Ethiopian Agriculture
# 22
South Africa :
12,530,000 hectares
1978
South African Agriculture
# 23
Sudan :
12,346,000 hectares
1978
Sudanese Agriculture
# 24
Germany :
12,086,000 hectares
1978
German Agriculture
# 25
Romania :
9,803,000 hectares
1978
Romanian Agriculture
# 26
Niger :
9,774,000 hectares
1978
Nigerien Agriculture
# 27
Burma :
9,558,000 hectares
1978
Burmese Agriculture
# 28
Italy :
9,451,000 hectares
1978
Italian Agriculture
# 29
Bangladesh :
8,876,000 hectares
1978
Bangladeshi Agriculture
# 30
Afghanistan :
7,910,000 hectares
1978
Afghan Agriculture
# 31
Morocco :
7,658,000 hectares
1978
Moroccan Agriculture
# 32
United Kingdom :
6,936,000 hectares
1978
British Agriculture
# 33
Algeria :
6,892,000 hectares
1978
Algerian Agriculture
# 34
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
6,620,000 hectares
1978
Congolese Agriculture
# 35
Belarus :
6,323,464 hectares
1978
Belarusian Agriculture
# 36
Vietnam :
5,999,000 hectares
1978
Vietnamese Agriculture
# 37
Cameroon :
5,639,000 hectares
1978
Cameroonian Agriculture
# 38
Serbia and Montenegro :
5,433,674 hectares
1978
Serbian Agriculture
# 39
Iraq :
5,200,000 hectares
1978
Iraqi Agriculture
# 40
Philippines :
5,150,000 hectares
1978
Philippine Agriculture
# 41
Syria :
5,149,000 hectares
1978
Syrian Agriculture
# 42
Hungary :
5,046,000 hectares
1978
Hungarian Agriculture
# 43
Zambia :
5,045,000 hectares
1978
Zambian Agriculture
# 44
Japan :
4,898,000 hectares
1978
Japanese Agriculture
# 45
Uzbekistan :
4,650,095 hectares
1978
Uzbekistani Agriculture
# 46
Uganda :
4,080,000 hectares
1978
Ugandan Agriculture
# 47
Chile :
3,992,000 hectares
1978
Chilean Agriculture
# 48
Bulgaria :
3,926,000 hectares
1978
Bulgarian Agriculture
# 49
Kenya :
3,800,000 hectares
1978
Kenyan Agriculture
# 50
Colombia :
3,681,000 hectares
1978
Colombian Agriculture
# 51
Tunisia :
3,413,000 hectares
1978
Tunisian Agriculture
# 52
Czech Republic :
3,173,000 hectares
1978
Czech Agriculture
# 53
Peru :
3,145,000 hectares
1978
Peruvian Agriculture
# 54
Chad :
3,143,000 hectares
1978
Chadian Agriculture
# 55
Sweden :
3,000,000 hectares
1978
Swedish Agriculture
# 56
Lithuania :
2,998,553 hectares
1978
Lithuanian Agriculture
# 57
Venezuela :
2,955,000 hectares
1978
Venezuelan Agriculture
# 58
Greece :
2,923,000 hectares
1978
Greek Agriculture
# 59
Angola :
2,900,000 hectares
1978
Angolan Agriculture
# 60
Mozambique :
2,870,000 hectares
1978
Mozambican Agriculture
# 61
New Zealand :
2,702,000 hectares
1978
New Zealand Agriculture
# 62
Burkina Faso :
2,650,000 hectares
1978
Burkinabe Agriculture
# 63
Denmark :
2,643,000 hectares
1978
Danish Agriculture
# 64
Cuba :
2,636,000 hectares
1978
Cuban Agriculture
# 65
Madagascar :
2,500,000 hectares
1978
Malagasy Agriculture
# 66
Zimbabwe :
2,465,000 hectares
1978
Zimbabwean Agriculture
# 67
Portugal :
2,433,000 hectares
1978
Portuguese Agriculture
# 68
Tanzania :
2,400,000 hectares
1978
Tanzanian Agriculture
# 69
Finland :
2,398,000 hectares
1978
Finnish Agriculture
# 70
Egypt :
2,395,000 hectares
1978
Egyptian Agriculture
# 71
Senegal :
2,343,000 hectares
1978
Senegalese Agriculture
# 72
Nepal :
2,240,000 hectares
1978
Nepalese Agriculture
# 73
Korea, North :
2,200,000 hectares
1978
Korean Agriculture
# 74
Korea, South :
2,079,000 hectares
1978
Korean Agriculture
# 75
Mali :
2,015,000 hectares
1978
Malian Agriculture
# 76
Cambodia :
1,950,000 hectares
1978
Cambodian Agriculture
# 77
Côte d'Ivoire :
1,910,000 hectares
1978
Ivoirian Agriculture
# 78
Togo :
1,900,000 hectares
1978
Togolese Agriculture
# 79
Ghana :
1,900,000 hectares
1978
Ghanaian Agriculture
# 80
Bolivia :
1,877,000 hectares
1978
Bolivian Agriculture
# 81
Central African Republic :
1,850,000 hectares
1978
Central African Agriculture
# 82
Moldova :
1,804,328 hectares
1978
Moldovan Agriculture
# 83
Saudi Arabia :
1,790,000 hectares
1978
Saudi Agriculture
# 84
Azerbaijan :
1,771,589 hectares
1978
Azerbaijani Agriculture
# 85
Croatia :
1,770,326 hectares
1978
Croatian Agriculture
# 86
Latvia :
1,754,439 hectares
1978
Latvian Agriculture
# 87
Libya :
1,750,000 hectares
1978
Libyan Agriculture
# 88
Ecuador :
1,610,000 hectares
1978
Ecuadorian Agriculture
# 89
Slovakia :
1,562,000 hectares
1978
Slovak Agriculture
# 90
Austria :
1,547,000 hectares
1978
Austrian Agriculture
# 91
Honduras :
1,504,000 hectares
1978
Honduran Agriculture
# 92
Benin :
1,450,000 hectares
1978
Beninese Agriculture
# 93
Malawi :
1,422,000 hectares
1978
Malawian Agriculture
# 94
Turkmenistan :
1,403,136 hectares
1978
Turkmen Agriculture
# 95
Uruguay :
1,403,000 hectares
1978
Uruguayan Agriculture
# 96
Paraguay :
1,390,000 hectares
1978
Paraguayan Agriculture
# 97
Kyrgyzstan :
1,371,955 hectares
1978
Kyrgyzstani Agriculture
# 98
Yemen :
1,365,000 hectares
1978
Yemeni Agriculture
# 99
Guatemala :
1,250,000 hectares
1978
Guatemalan Agriculture
# 100
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
1,241,565 hectares
1978
Herzegovinian Agriculture
# 101
Estonia :
1,158,886 hectares
1978
Estonian Agriculture
# 102
Ireland :
1,158,000 hectares
1978
Irish Agriculture
# 103
Mongolia :
1,154,000 hectares
1978
Mongolian Agriculture
# 104
Nicaragua :
1,065,000 hectares
1978
Nicaraguan Agriculture
# 105
Dominican Republic :
1,015,000 hectares
1978
Dominican Agriculture
# 106
Malaysia :
990,000 hectares
1978
Malaysian Agriculture
# 107
Somalia :
974,000 hectares
1978
Somali Agriculture
# 108
Burundi :
935,000 hectares
1978
Burundian Agriculture
# 109
Belgium :
909,000 hectares
1978
Belgian Agriculture
# 110
Tajikistan :
893,849.3 hectares
1978
Tajikistani Agriculture
# 111
Macedonia, Republic of :
885,163 hectares
1978
Macedonian Agriculture
# 112
Sri Lanka :
858,000 hectares
1978
Sri Lankan Agriculture
# 113
Georgia :
826,290.9 hectares
1978
Georgian Agriculture
# 114
Norway :
806,000 hectares
1978
Norwegian Agriculture
# 115
Haiti :
780,000 hectares
1978
Haitian Agriculture
# 116
Netherlands :
780,000 hectares
1978
Dutch Agriculture
# 117
Laos :
775,000 hectares
1978
Lao Agriculture
# 118
Rwanda :
730,000 hectares
1978
Rwandan Agriculture
# 119
Guinea :
700,000 hectares
1978
Guinean Agriculture
# 120
Namibia :
655,000 hectares
1978
Namibian Agriculture
# 121
Albania :
583,000 hectares
1978
Albanian Agriculture
# 122
Armenia :
517,601.1 hectares
1978
Armenian Agriculture
# 123
El Salvador :
515,000 hectares
1978
Salvadoran Agriculture
# 124
Congo, Republic of the :
483,000 hectares
1978
Congolese Agriculture
# 125
Guyana :
451,000 hectares
1978
Guyanese Agriculture
# 126
Sierra Leone :
440,000 hectares
1978
Sierra Leonean Agriculture
# 127
Panama :
434,000 hectares
1978
Panamanian Agriculture
# 128
Botswana :
400,000 hectares
1978
Motswana -Batswana Agriculture
# 129
Switzerland :
376,000 hectares
1978
Swiss Agriculture
# 130
Liberia :
371,000 hectares
1978
Liberian Agriculture
# 131
Israel :
325,000 hectares
1978
Israeli Agriculture
# 132
Jordan :
296,000 hectares
1978
Jordanian Agriculture
# 133
Slovenia :
292,133 hectares
1978
Slovenian Agriculture
# 134
Lesotho :
289,000 hectares
1978
Basotho Agriculture
# 135
Gabon :
287,000 hectares
1978
Gabonese Agriculture
# 136
Costa Rica :
283,000 hectares
1978
Costa Rican Agriculture
# 137
Guinea-Bissau :
255,000 hectares
1978
Guinean Agriculture
# 138
Lebanon :
224,000 hectares
1978
Lebanese Agriculture
# 139
Mauritania :
192,000 hectares
1978
Mauritanian Agriculture
# 140
Swaziland :
188,000 hectares
1978
Swazi Agriculture
# 141
Gambia, The :
173,000 hectares
1978
Gambian Agriculture
# 142
Papua New Guinea :
160,000 hectares
1978
Papua New Guinean Agriculture
# 143
Jamaica :
145,000 hectares
1978
Jamaican Agriculture
# 144
Equatorial Guinea :
130,000 hectares
1978
Equatorial Guinean Agriculture
# 145
Cyprus :
103,000 hectares
1978
Cypriot Agriculture
# 146
Bhutan :
101,000 hectares
1978
Bhutanese Agriculture
# 147
Mauritius :
100,000 hectares
1978
Mauritian Agriculture
# 148
Puerto Rico :
98,000 hectares
1978
Puerto Rican Agriculture
# 149
East Timor :
96,000 hectares
1978
Timorese Agriculture
# 150
Fiji :
90,000 hectares
1978
Fijian Agriculture
# 151
Comoros :
75,000 hectares
1978
Comoran Agriculture
# 152
Trinidad and Tobago :
70,000 hectares
1978
Tobagonian Agriculture
# 153
Luxembourg :
62,000 hectares
1978
Luxembourg Agriculture
# 154
Samoa :
55,000 hectares
1978
Samoan Agriculture
# 155
Belize :
43,000 hectares
1978
Belizean Agriculture
# 156
Cape Verde :
38,000 hectares
1978
Cape Verdean Agriculture
# 157
Suriname :
36,000 hectares
1978
Surinamese Agriculture
# 158
Oman :
23,000 hectares
1978
Omani Agriculture
# 159
Vanuatu :
17,000 hectares
1978
- Agriculture
# 160
Tonga :
16,000 hectares
1978
Tongan Agriculture
# 161
Barbados :
16,000 hectares
1978
Barbadian Agriculture
# 162
Malta :
13,000 hectares
1978
Maltese Agriculture
# 163
Solomon Islands :
12,000 hectares
1978
Solomon Islander Agriculture
# 164
United Arab Emirates :
12,000 hectares
1978
Emirati Agriculture
# 165
Netherlands Antilles :
8,000 hectares
1978
Dutch Antillean Agriculture
# 166
Antigua and Barbuda :
8,000 hectares
1978
Barbudan Agriculture
# 167
Iceland :
8,000 hectares
1978
Icelandic Agriculture
# 168
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
8,000 hectares
1978
Nevisian Agriculture
# 169
Dominica :
7,000 hectares
1978
Dominican Agriculture
# 170
Bahamas, The :
7,000 hectares
1978
Bahamian Agriculture
# 171
New Caledonia :
7,000 hectares
1978
New Caledonian Agriculture
# 172
Saint Lucia :
5,000 hectares
1978
Saint Lucian Agriculture
# 173
Virgin Islands :
5,000 hectares
1978
Virgin Islander Agriculture
# 174
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
5,000 hectares
1978
Saint Vincentian Agriculture
# 175
Maldives :
4,000 hectares
1978
Maldivian Agriculture
# 176
Liechtenstein :
4,000 hectares
1978
Liechtenstein Agriculture
# 177
Brunei :
4,000 hectares
1978
Bruneian Agriculture
# 178
Faroe Islands :
3,000 hectares
1978
Faroese Agriculture
# 179
Grenada :
3,000 hectares
1978
Grenadian Agriculture
# 180
Guam :
2,000 hectares
1978
Guamanian Agriculture
# 181
Singapore :
2,000 hectares
1978
Singapore Agriculture
# 182
Bahrain :
2,000 hectares
1978
Bahraini Agriculture
# 183
Kiribati :
2,000 hectares
1978
- Agriculture
# 184
French Polynesia :
2,000 hectares
1978
French Polynesian Agriculture
# 185
American Samoa :
2,000 hectares
1978
American Samoan Agriculture
# 186
Aruba :
2,000 hectares
1978
Aruban Agriculture
# 187
Seychelles :
1,000 hectares
1978
Seychellois Agriculture
# 188
Qatar :
1,000 hectares
1978
Qatari Agriculture
# 189
Cayman Islands :
1,000 hectares
1978
Caymanian Agriculture
# 190
San Marino :
1,000 hectares
1978
Sammarinese Agriculture
# 191
Andorra :
1,000 hectares
1978
Andorran Agriculture
# 192
São Tomé and Príncipe :
1,000 hectares
1978
Sao Tomean Agriculture
# 193
Kuwait :
1,000 hectares
1978
Kuwaiti Agriculture
# 194
Bermuda :
1,000 hectares
1978
Bermudian Agriculture
# 195
Djibouti :
1,000 hectares
1978
Djiboutian Agriculture
Total :
1,357,673,717.3 hectares
Weighted average:
6,962,429.3 hectares
DEFINITION: Arable land (in hectares) 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.
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"Arable land > hectares (1978) by country", World Development Indicators database. Retrieved from http://www.NationMaster.com/graph/agr_ara_lan_hec-agriculture-arable-land-hectares&date=1978
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