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Arable land by country — world rankings

Ranking 168 countries with data.

Arable land

Rank Country Value
1 Bangladesh 60.6% (2023)
2 Denmark 59.1% (2023)
3 Ukraine 56.8% (2023)
4 Moldova 56.8% (2023)
5 India 51.8% (2023)
6 Burundi 51.4% (2023)
7 Togo 48.7% (2023)
8 Rwanda 47.0% (2023)
9 Hungary 45.4% (2023)
10 Gambia 43.5% (2023)
11 Malawi 42.4% (2023)
12 Nigeria 40.5% (2023)
13 Pakistan 39.3% (2023)
14 Lithuania 36.8% (2023)
15 Poland 36.6% (2023)
16 Romania 36.5% (2023)
17 Haiti 36.5% (2023)
18 El Salvador 34.8% (2023)
19 Uganda 34.4% (2023)
20 Germany 33.4% (2023)
21 Czechia 32.7% (2023)
22 Bulgaria 32.1% (2023)
23 Benin 31.4% (2023)
24 France 31.4% (2023)
25 Thailand 31.0% (2023)
26 Serbia 31.0% (2023)
27 Netherlands 30.0% (2023)
28 Burkina Faso 28.9% (2023)
29 Belgium 28.3% (2023)
30 Cuba 28.0% (2023)
31 Belarus 27.4% (2023)
32 Slovakia 27.2% (2023)
33 Turkey 26.3% (2023)
34 Azerbaijan 25.3% (2023)
35 United Kingdom 25.0% (2023)
36 Guinea 24.4% (2023)
37 Syria 24.0% (2023)
38 Italy 24.0% (2023)
39 Luxembourg 23.8% (2023)
40 Cambodia 23.3% (2023)
41 Spain 23.0% (2023)
42 Sri Lanka 22.2% (2023)
43 Sierra Leone 21.9% (2023)
44 Latvia 21.9% (2023)
45 Albania 21.6% (2023)
46 Vietnam 21.5% (2023)
47 Ghana 20.7% (2023)
48 Dominican Rep. 20.2% (2023)
49 Senegal 19.9% (2023)
50 North Korea 19.1% (2023)
51 Philippines 18.7% (2023)
52 Tunisia 18.2% (2023)
53 Myanmar 16.9% (2023)
54 Estonia 16.6% (2023)
55 United States 16.6% (2023)
56 Macedonia 16.5% (2023)
57 Austria 16.0% (2023)
58 Armenia 15.7% (2023)
59 Croatia 15.5% (2023)
60 Morocco 15.4% (2023)
61 Tanzania 15.2% (2023)
62 Côte d'Ivoire 15.1% (2023)
63 South Korea 14.9% (2023)
64 Argentina 14.8% (2023)
65 Ethiopia 14.5% (2023)
66 Guatemala 14.5% (2023)
67 Greece 14.4% (2023)
68 Guinea-Bissau 14.1% (2023)
69 Niger 14.0% (2023)
70 Lebanon 13.1% (2023)
71 Cameroon 13.1% (2023)
72 Nepal 12.6% (2023)
73 Uruguay 12.6% (2023)
74 Israel 12.5% (2023)
75 Nicaragua 12.5% (2023)
76 Afghanistan 12.0% (2023)
77 Lesotho 11.8% (2023)
78 China 11.5% (2023)
79 Paraguay 11.5% (2023)
80 Iraq 11.4% (2023)
81 Kenya 11.4% (2023)
82 Sudan 11.2% (2023)
83 Japan 11.1% (2023)
84 Jamaica 11.1% (2023)
85 Kazakhstan 11.0% (2023)
86 Cyprus 10.6% (2023)
87 Zimbabwe 10.4% (2023)
88 Mexico 10.3% (2023)
89 eSwatini 10.3% (2023)
90 Portugal 10.1% (2023)
91 Switzerland 10.0% (2023)
92 South Africa 9.9% (2023)
93 Iran 9.7% (2023)
94 Indonesia 9.4% (2023)
95 Uzbekistan 9.1% (2023)
96 Honduras 9.1% (2023)
97 Slovenia 8.9% (2023)
98 Panama 7.6% (2023)
99 Timor-Leste 7.5% (2023)
100 Russia 7.4% (2023)
101 Finland 7.4% (2023)
102 Bosnia and Herz. 7.2% (2023)
103 Mozambique 7.2% (2023)
104 Palestine 7.0% (2023)
105 Mali 6.8% (2023)
106 Kyrgyzstan 6.7% (2023)
107 Brazil 6.7% (2023)
108 Dem. Rep. Congo 6.6% (2023)
109 Ireland 6.4% (2023)
110 Sweden 6.2% (2023)
111 Tajikistan 6.1% (2023)
112 Eritrea 5.7% (2023)
113 Puerto Rico 5.7% (2023)
114 Laos 5.3% (2023)
115 Liberia 5.2% (2023)
116 Madagascar 5.2% (2023)
117 Bolivia 5.1% (2023)
118 Zambia 5.1% (2023)
119 Trinidad and Tobago 4.9% (2023)
120 Belize 4.4% (2023)
121 Georgia 4.4% (2023)
122 Canada 4.3% (2023)
123 Angola 4.3% (2023)
124 Chad 4.2% (2023)
125 Fiji 4.2% (2023)
126 Ecuador 4.1% (2023)
127 Australia 4.0% (2023)
128 S. Sudan 3.9% (2023)
129 Turkmenistan 3.4% (2023)
130 Costa Rica 3.3% (2023)
131 Algeria 3.2% (2023)
132 Egypt 3.1% (2023)
133 Peru 3.1% (2023)
134 Venezuela 2.9% (2023)
135 Central African Rep. 2.9% (2023)
136 Bhutan 2.6% (2023)
137 Malaysia 2.4% (2023)
138 Colombia 2.3% (2023)
139 Jordan 2.3% (2023)
140 Norway 2.2% (2023)
141 Yemen 2.2% (2023)
142 New Zealand 2.0% (2023)
143 Chile 1.9% (2023)
144 Eq. Guinea 1.9% (2023)
145 Qatar 1.8% (2023)
146 Somalia 1.8% (2023)
147 Vanuatu 1.6% (2023)
148 Congo 1.6% (2023)
149 Saudi Arabia 1.6% (2023)
150 Gabon 1.3% (2023)
151 Iceland 1.2% (2023)
152 Libya 1.0% (2023)
153 Namibia 1.0% (2023)
154 Solomon Is. 0.8% (2023)
155 Bahamas 0.8% (2023)
156 Brunei 0.8% (2023)
157 Mongolia 0.7% (2023)
158 Papua New Guinea 0.7% (2023)
159 United Arab Emirates 0.7% (2023)
160 Montenegro 0.7% (2023)
161 Guyana 0.5% (2023)
162 Botswana 0.5% (2023)
163 Kuwait 0.4% (2023)
164 Mauritania 0.4% (2023)
165 Suriname 0.3% (2023)
166 New Caledonia 0.3% (2023)
167 Oman 0.3% (2023)
168 Djibouti 0.1% (2023)

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 168 countries with data is 11.0% — shown for context, not a world average.

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Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).