High income - Arable land

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in High income was 0.278 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.487 in 1961 and a minimum value of 0.278 in 2018.

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.

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Year Value
1961 0.487
1962 0.477
1963 0.474
1964 0.467
1965 0.461
1966 0.455
1967 0.448
1968 0.454
1969 0.457
1970 0.449
1971 0.438
1972 0.433
1973 0.425
1974 0.420
1975 0.414
1976 0.412
1977 0.409
1978 0.410
1979 0.408
1980 0.405
1981 0.402
1982 0.399
1983 0.396
1984 0.396
1985 0.393
1986 0.390
1987 0.384
1988 0.380
1989 0.376
1990 0.372
1991 0.368
1992 0.363
1993 0.358
1994 0.354
1995 0.349
1996 0.346
1997 0.343
1998 0.341
1999 0.338
2000 0.335
2001 0.331
2002 0.324
2003 0.318
2004 0.316
2005 0.312
2006 0.305
2007 0.297
2008 0.295
2009 0.294
2010 0.287
2011 0.290
2012 0.288
2013 0.285
2014 0.285
2015 0.283
2016 0.281
2017 0.280
2018 0.278

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in High income was 9.71 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 10.88 in 1969, while its lowest value was 9.49 in 2010.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1961 10.58
1962 10.51
1963 10.58
1964 10.54
1965 10.53
1966 10.51
1967 10.47
1968 10.70
1969 10.88
1970 10.80
1971 10.67
1972 10.64
1973 10.55
1974 10.53
1975 10.49
1976 10.51
1977 10.53
1978 10.65
1979 10.67
1980 10.68
1981 10.69
1982 10.70
1983 10.69
1984 10.78
1985 10.66
1986 10.66
1987 10.57
1988 10.51
1989 10.48
1990 10.46
1991 10.43
1992 10.45
1993 10.51
1994 10.48
1995 10.39
1996 10.37
1997 10.36
1998 10.33
1999 10.31
2000 10.30
2001 10.24
2002 10.10
2003 9.97
2004 9.98
2005 9.91
2006 9.76
2007 9.60
2008 9.60
2009 9.64
2010 9.49
2011 9.62
2012 9.60
2013 9.57
2014 9.62
2015 9.60
2016 9.69
2017 9.73
2018 9.71

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use