Arable land

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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
206
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Food and Agriculture Organization

    FAO electronic files and website, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202312.03percent
Albania202321.56percent
Algeria20233.16percent
American Samoa20235.15percent
Andorra20231.56percent
Angola20234.32percent
Antigua and Barbuda20239.09percent
Argentina202314.76percent
Armenia202315.66percent
Aruba202311.11percent

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