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Arable land (hectares)

The value for Arable land (hectares) in Cyprus was 104,005 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 329,000 in 1961 and a minimum value of 79,730 in 2013.

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.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

Year	Value
1961	329,000
1962	327,000
1963	325,000
1964	323,000
1965	322,000
1966	320,000
1967	318,000
1968	316,000
1969	314,000
1970	313,000
1971	311,000
1972	309,000
1973	307,000
1974	212,000
1975	116,400
1976	114,000
1977	112,000
1978	110,000
1979	108,000
1980	107,200
1981	110,400
1982	115,000
1983	116,000
1984	115,000
1985	102,800
1986	103,200
1987	103,400
1988	103,400
1989	104,400
1990	105,600
1991	106,200
1992	107,600
1993	108,700
1994	99,400
1995	99,100
1996	99,000
1997	98,100
1998	100,100
1999	101,100
2000	98,400
2001	98,000
2002	100,000
2003	112,000
2004	113,000
2005	123,000
2006	115,000
2007	109,800
2008	82,400
2009	86,900
2010	82,600
2011	84,000
2012	85,800
2013	79,730
2014	80,180
2015	98,380
2016	81,600
2017	94,330
2018	104,005

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in Cyprus was 0.087 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.571 in 1961 and a minimum value of 0.070 in 2014.

Definition: Arable land (hectares per person) 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.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

Year	Value
1961	0.571
1962	0.566
1963	0.562
1964	0.558
1965	0.554
1966	0.547
1967	0.538
1968	0.528
1969	0.518
1970	0.510
1971	0.501
1972	0.492
1973	0.483
1974	0.330
1975	0.179
1976	0.173
1977	0.168
1978	0.163
1979	0.159
1980	0.156
1981	0.160
1982	0.166
1983	0.167
1984	0.165
1985	0.146
1986	0.145
1987	0.143
1988	0.140
1989	0.139
1990	0.138
1991	0.136
1992	0.134
1993	0.133
1994	0.119
1995	0.116
1996	0.113
1997	0.110
1998	0.110
1999	0.109
2000	0.104
2001	0.102
2002	0.102
2003	0.113
2004	0.112
2005	0.120
2006	0.110
2007	0.103
2008	0.076
2009	0.079
2010	0.074
2011	0.075
2012	0.076
2013	0.070
2014	0.070
2015	0.085
2016	0.070
2017	0.080
2018	0.087

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in Cyprus was 11.26 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 35.61 in 1961, while its lowest value was 8.63 in 2013.

Definition: 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.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

Year	Value
1961	35.61
1962	35.39
1963	35.17
1964	34.96
1965	34.85
1966	34.63
1967	34.42
1968	34.20
1969	33.98
1970	33.87
1971	33.66
1972	33.44
1973	33.23
1974	22.94
1975	12.60
1976	12.34
1977	12.12
1978	11.90
1979	11.69
1980	11.60
1981	11.95
1982	12.45
1983	12.55
1984	12.45
1985	11.13
1986	11.17
1987	11.19
1988	11.19
1989	11.30
1990	11.43
1991	11.49
1992	11.65
1993	11.76
1994	10.76
1995	10.73
1996	10.71
1997	10.62
1998	10.83
1999	10.94
2000	10.65
2001	10.61
2002	10.82
2003	12.12
2004	12.23
2005	13.31
2006	12.45
2007	11.88
2008	8.92
2009	9.40
2010	8.94
2011	9.09
2012	9.29
2013	8.63
2014	8.68
2015	10.65
2016	8.83
2017	10.21
2018	11.26

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Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use