Puerto Rico - Arable land

Arable land (hectares)

The value for Arable land (hectares) in Puerto Rico was 50,200 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 224,000 in 1961 and a minimum value of 32,000 in 1993.

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 224,000
1962 213,000
1963 212,000
1964 191,000
1965 215,000
1966 187,000
1967 170,000
1968 164,000
1969 166,000
1970 152,000
1971 130,000
1972 115,000
1973 95,000
1974 95,000
1975 94,000
1976 94,000
1977 96,000
1978 98,000
1979 97,000
1980 74,000
1981 68,000
1982 67,000
1983 64,000
1984 66,000
1985 63,000
1986 64,000
1987 63,000
1988 77,000
1989 70,000
1990 65,000
1991 55,000
1992 52,000
1993 32,000
1994 33,000
1995 33,000
1996 33,000
1997 37,000
1998 51,500
1999 54,600
2000 59,700
2001 64,900
2002 68,000
2003 61,200
2004 55,400
2005 50,600
2006 43,800
2007 36,900
2008 41,000
2009 45,100
2010 49,200
2011 52,300
2012 55,100
2013 54,200
2014 53,300
2015 52,400
2016 51,500
2017 50,600
2018 50,200

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in Puerto Rico was 0.016 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.093 in 1961 and a minimum value of 0.009 in 1993.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1961 0.093
1962 0.087
1963 0.085
1964 0.075
1965 0.083
1966 0.071
1967 0.064
1968 0.062
1969 0.062
1970 0.056
1971 0.047
1972 0.041
1973 0.033
1974 0.032
1975 0.031
1976 0.031
1977 0.031
1978 0.031
1979 0.031
1980 0.023
1981 0.021
1982 0.020
1983 0.019
1984 0.020
1985 0.019
1986 0.019
1987 0.018
1988 0.022
1989 0.020
1990 0.018
1991 0.015
1992 0.015
1993 0.009
1994 0.009
1995 0.009
1996 0.009
1997 0.010
1998 0.014
1999 0.014
2000 0.016
2001 0.017
2002 0.018
2003 0.016
2004 0.014
2005 0.013
2006 0.012
2007 0.010
2008 0.011
2009 0.012
2010 0.013
2011 0.014
2012 0.015
2013 0.015
2014 0.015
2015 0.015
2016 0.015
2017 0.015
2018 0.016

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in Puerto Rico was 5.66 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 25.25 in 1961, while its lowest value was 3.61 in 1993.

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 25.25
1962 24.01
1963 23.90
1964 21.53
1965 24.24
1966 21.08
1967 19.17
1968 18.49
1969 18.71
1970 17.14
1971 14.66
1972 12.97
1973 10.71
1974 10.71
1975 10.60
1976 10.60
1977 10.82
1978 11.05
1979 10.94
1980 8.34
1981 7.67
1982 7.55
1983 7.22
1984 7.44
1985 7.10
1986 7.22
1987 7.10
1988 8.68
1989 7.89
1990 7.33
1991 6.20
1992 5.86
1993 3.61
1994 3.72
1995 3.72
1996 3.72
1997 4.17
1998 5.81
1999 6.16
2000 6.73
2001 7.32
2002 7.67
2003 6.90
2004 6.25
2005 5.70
2006 4.94
2007 4.16
2008 4.62
2009 5.08
2010 5.55
2011 5.90
2012 6.21
2013 6.11
2014 6.01
2015 5.91
2016 5.81
2017 5.70
2018 5.66

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use