Mongolia - Arable land

Arable land (hectares)

The value for Arable land (hectares) in Mongolia was 1,327,400 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,374,000 in 1989 and a minimum value of 624,000 in 1961.

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.

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Year Value
1961 624,000
1962 724,000
1963 729,000
1964 850,000
1965 867,000
1966 885,000
1967 819,000
1968 777,000
1969 746,000
1970 744,000
1971 775,000
1972 776,000
1973 789,000
1974 801,000
1975 827,000
1976 950,000
1977 1,100,000
1978 1,154,000
1979 1,160,000
1980 1,182,000
1981 1,212,000
1982 1,251,000
1983 1,312,000
1984 1,334,000
1985 1,353,000
1986 1,306,000
1987 1,334,000
1988 1,365,000
1989 1,374,000
1990 1,370,000
1991 1,368,000
1992 1,362,000
1993 1,352,000
1994 1,321,000
1995 1,321,000
1996 1,321,000
1997 1,227,000
1998 1,346,000
1999 1,190,000
2000 1,174,000
2001 1,176,500
2002 1,179,000
2003 1,179,432
2004 1,174,900
2005 1,173,400
2006 1,175,300
2007 1,175,000
2008 1,197,000
2009 1,216,056
2010 1,236,030
2011 1,291,800
2012 1,319,103
2013 1,286,780
2014 1,312,700
2015 1,328,110
2016 1,323,350
2017 1,322,710
2018 1,327,400

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in Mongolia was 0.419 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.791 in 1964 and a minimum value of 0.419 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 0.635
1962 0.716
1963 0.699
1964 0.791
1965 0.783
1966 0.776
1967 0.698
1968 0.644
1969 0.601
1970 0.582
1971 0.588
1972 0.572
1973 0.565
1974 0.557
1975 0.559
1976 0.625
1977 0.704
1978 0.719
1979 0.705
1980 0.700
1981 0.699
1982 0.704
1983 0.720
1984 0.713
1985 0.704
1986 0.661
1987 0.656
1988 0.653
1989 0.642
1990 0.627
1991 0.617
1992 0.607
1993 0.597
1994 0.579
1995 0.575
1996 0.570
1997 0.525
1998 0.571
1999 0.501
2000 0.490
2001 0.486
2002 0.483
2003 0.478
2004 0.471
2005 0.464
2006 0.459
2007 0.453
2008 0.455
2009 0.455
2010 0.454
2011 0.466
2012 0.467
2013 0.447
2014 0.446
2015 0.443
2016 0.433
2017 0.425
2018 0.419

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in Mongolia was 0.852 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 0.884 in 1989, while its lowest value was 0.402 in 1961.

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 0.402
1962 0.466
1963 0.469
1964 0.547
1965 0.558
1966 0.570
1967 0.527
1968 0.500
1969 0.480
1970 0.479
1971 0.499
1972 0.499
1973 0.508
1974 0.516
1975 0.532
1976 0.611
1977 0.708
1978 0.743
1979 0.747
1980 0.761
1981 0.780
1982 0.805
1983 0.845
1984 0.859
1985 0.871
1986 0.841
1987 0.859
1988 0.879
1989 0.884
1990 0.882
1991 0.881
1992 0.877
1993 0.870
1994 0.850
1995 0.850
1996 0.850
1997 0.790
1998 0.866
1999 0.766
2000 0.756
2001 0.757
2002 0.759
2003 0.759
2004 0.756
2005 0.755
2006 0.757
2007 0.756
2008 0.770
2009 0.783
2010 0.796
2011 0.832
2012 0.849
2013 0.828
2014 0.845
2015 0.853
2016 0.850
2017 0.849
2018 0.852

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use