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Agricultural land in Nigeria

Agricultural land in Nigeria was 77.1% in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. That is unchanged from 2023. That is the 12th highest of 224 countries in 2024.

202477.1% Estimated
Change on 20230 pts
Rank12th of 224Countries ranked
Series high77.32018
Series low59.51961

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Agricultural land in Nigeria, 1961 to 2024

55606570758019611971198119912001201120241961: 59.5 %1962: 59.7 %1963: 59.8 %1964: 60 %1965: 60.1 %1966: 60.2 %1967: 59.9 %1968: 60.1 %1969: 60.3 %1970: 60.6 %1971: 60.7 %1972: 60.9 %1973: 61 %1974: 61.2 %1975: 61.4 %1976: 61.5 %1977: 61.4 %1978: 61.5 %1979: 61.9 %1980: 62.1 %1981: 62.2 %1982: 62.3 %1983: 62.4 %1984: 62.8 %1985: 63.1 %1986: 63.3 %1987: 63.4 %1988: 63.6 %1989: 63.8 %1990: 64.5 %1991: 65.3 %1992: 66.5 %1993: 66.9 %1994: 68 %1995: 70.4 %1996: 70.5 %1997: 70.7 %1998: 71.6 %1999: 71.8 %2000: 71.9 %2001: 72.1 %2002: 72.3 %2003: 72.5 %2004: 73.7 %2005: 73.4 %2006: 72.7 %2007: 72.9 %2008: 73.5 %2009: 73.3 %2010: 74.2 %2011: 73.6 %2012: 73.4 %2013: 72.8 %2014: 73.7 %2015: 74.8 %2016: 76 %2017: 77.2 %2018: 77.3 %2019: 75.1 %2020: 74.9 %2021: 75.1 %2022: 76.1 %2023: 77.1 %2024: 77.1 %55606570758019611983200520241961: 59.5 %1962: 59.7 %1963: 59.8 %1964: 60 %1965: 60.1 %1966: 60.2 %1967: 59.9 %1968: 60.1 %1969: 60.3 %1970: 60.6 %1971: 60.7 %1972: 60.9 %1973: 61 %1974: 61.2 %1975: 61.4 %1976: 61.5 %1977: 61.4 %1978: 61.5 %1979: 61.9 %1980: 62.1 %1981: 62.2 %1982: 62.3 %1983: 62.4 %1984: 62.8 %1985: 63.1 %1986: 63.3 %1987: 63.4 %1988: 63.6 %1989: 63.8 %1990: 64.5 %1991: 65.3 %1992: 66.5 %1993: 66.9 %1994: 68 %1995: 70.4 %1996: 70.5 %1997: 70.7 %1998: 71.6 %1999: 71.8 %2000: 71.9 %2001: 72.1 %2002: 72.3 %2003: 72.5 %2004: 73.7 %2005: 73.4 %2006: 72.7 %2007: 72.9 %2008: 73.5 %2009: 73.3 %2010: 74.2 %2011: 73.6 %2012: 73.4 %2013: 72.8 %2014: 73.7 %2015: 74.8 %2016: 76 %2017: 77.2 %2018: 77.3 %2019: 75.1 %2020: 74.9 %2021: 75.1 %2022: 76.1 %2023: 77.1 %2024: 77.1 %
%. Source: FAOSTAT, Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209). Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-10-02.
All 64 values
Period%
202477.1 Estimated
202377.1 Estimated
202276.1 Estimated
202175.1 Estimated
202074.9 Estimated
201975.1 Estimated
201877.3 Estimated
201777.2 Estimated
201676 Estimated
201574.8 Estimated
201473.7 Estimated
201372.8 Estimated
201273.4 Estimated
201173.6 Estimated
201074.2 Estimated
200973.3 Estimated
200873.5 Estimated
200772.9 Estimated
200672.7 Estimated
200573.4 Estimated
200473.7 Estimated
200372.5 Estimated
200272.3 Estimated
200172.1 Estimated
200071.9 Estimated
199971.8 Estimated
199871.6 Estimated
199770.7 Estimated
199670.5 Estimated
199570.4 Estimated
199468 Estimated
199366.9 Estimated
199266.5 Estimated
199165.3 Estimated
199064.5 Estimated
198963.8 Estimated
198863.6 Estimated
198763.4 Estimated
198663.3 Estimated
198563.1 Estimated
198462.8 Estimated
198362.4 Estimated
198262.3 Estimated
198162.2 Estimated
198062.1 Estimated
197961.9 Estimated
197861.5 Estimated
197761.4 Estimated
197661.5 Estimated
197561.4 Estimated
197461.2 Estimated
197361 Estimated
197260.9 Estimated
197160.7 Estimated
197060.6 Estimated
196960.3 Estimated
196860.1 Estimated
196759.9 Estimated
196660.2 Estimated
196560.1 Estimated
196460 Estimated
196359.8 Estimated
196259.7 Estimated
196159.5 Estimated

Nigeria compared with nearby places

United Arab Emirates: 5.6 %Afghanistan: 58.4 %Antigua and Barbuda: 21.1 %Albania: 41.1 %Armenia: 59.4 %Angola: 36.3 %Argentina: 45.8 %Austria: 31.1 %Australia: 47.3 %Azerbaijan: 57.8 %Bosnia and Herzegovina: 22.4 %Bangladesh: 72.2 %Belgium: 44.4 %Burkina Faso: 62.6 %Bulgaria: 46.2 %Burundi: 74.2 %Benin: 43.1 %Brunei: 2.9 %Bolivia: 36.1 %Brazil: 28.4 %Bahamas: 1.3 %Bhutan: 13.8 %Botswana: 45.6 %Belarus: 39.1 %Belize: 8.2 %Canada: 6.5 %Democratic Republic of the Congo: 16.2 %Central African Republic: 9.3 %Republic of the Congo: 31.2 %Switzerland: 37.7 %Côte d’Ivoire: 83.9 %Chile: 14.4 %Cameroon: 21.1 %China: 41.7 %Colombia: 36.5 %Costa Rica: 31.4 %Cuba: 61.7 %Cape Verde: 24.8 %Cyprus: 13.6 %Czechia: 45.8 %Germany: 47.4 %Djibouti: 73.5 %Denmark: 65.1 %Dominican Republic: 51.5 %Algeria: 17.4 %Ecuador: 20.3 %Estonia: 23 %Egypt: 4.3 %Western Sahara: 18.8 %Eritrea: 62.8 %Spain: 49.3 %Ethiopia: 34.3 %Finland: 7.4 %Fiji: 17 %Falkland Islands: 93.2 %Faroe Islands: 70.1 %France: 52.8 %Gabon: 6.9 %United Kingdom: 69.2 %Georgia: 33.7 %Ghana: 55.4 %Greenland: 0.6 %Gambia: 76.1 %Guinea: 73.2 %Equatorial Guinea: 3.4 %Greece: 38.9 %Guatemala: 46 %Guinea-Bissau: 31.4 %Guyana: 3.4 %Hong Kong: 3.8 %Honduras: 28.5 %Croatia: 26.2 %Haiti: 65.1 %Hungary: 55.5 %Indonesia: 28.9 %Ireland: 65.2 %Israel: 23.8 %Isle of Man: 68.3 %India: 59.9 %Iraq: 21.7 %Iran: 29 %Iceland: 16.3 %Italy: 43.6 %Jamaica: 39.1 %Jordan: 11.6 %Japan: 12.6 %Kenya: 50 %Kyrgyzstan: 54 %Cambodia: 34.7 %Kiribati: 41.9 %North Korea: 21.6 %South Korea: 16 %Kuwait: 8.4 %Cayman Islands: 11.3 %Kazakhstan: 79.2 %Laos: 9.5 %Lebanon: 63.7 %Sri Lanka: 48.8 %Liberia: 20.1 %Lesotho: 92.9 %Lithuania: 45.7 %Luxembourg: 51.7 %Latvia: 31.7 %Libya: 8.7 %Morocco: 67.2 %Moldova: 73.2 %Montenegro: 18.5 %Madagascar: 70.4 %North Macedonia: 49.2 %Mali: 34.2 %Myanmar: 19.9 %Mongolia: 68.8 %Mauritania: 38.5 %Mauritius: 40.9 %Malawi: 65 %Mexico: 50.6 %Malaysia: 24.8 %Mozambique: 56.1 %Namibia: 47.1 %New Caledonia: 9.8 %Niger: 36.8 %Nigeria: 77.1 %Netherlands: 53.4 %Norway: 2.7 %Nepal: 26.1 %New Zealand: 36.8 %Oman: 4.8 %Panama: 23.1 %Peru: 19 %French Polynesia: 8.1 %Papua New Guinea: 3.1 %Philippines: 42.8 %Pakistan: 47.2 %Poland: 46.2 %Puerto Rico: 18.5 %Palestine: 64.9 %Portugal: 41.3 %Palau: 9.4 %Paraguay: 54.1 %Qatar: 6.4 %Romania: 55.2 %Serbia: 38.1 %Russia: 13.2 %Rwanda: 75.7 %Saudi Arabia: 81.7 %Solomon Islands: 4.1 %Sudan: 60.3 %Sweden: 7.3 %Singapore: 0.9 %Slovenia: 30.4 %Slovakia: 37.8 %Sierra Leone: 55.2 %Senegal: 49.4 %Somalia: 70.3 %Suriname: 0.5 %South Sudan: 44.7 %El Salvador: 57.3 %Syria: 74.1 %Eswatini: 69.6 %Chad: 40 %Togo: 69.1 %Thailand: 43.3 %Tajikistan: 28 %Timor-Leste: 23 %Turkmenistan: 84.3 %Tunisia: 62.1 %Türkiye: 50.2 %Trinidad and Tobago: 11.6 %Taiwan: 21.9 %Tanzania: 45.1 %Ukraine: 71.3 %Uganda: 80.3 %United States: 46.1 %Uruguay: 87.4 %Uzbekistan: 59 %Venezuela: 24.4 %Vietnam: 39.2 %Vanuatu: 13.3 %Samoa: 17.8 %Yemen: 44.4 %South Africa: 79.4 %Zambia: 32.1 %Zimbabwe: 48.1 %
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Agricultural land, 2024, %. Nigeria is outlined. Same source and period for every area shown. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

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Definition

Agricultural land as a share of land area: cropland (arable land and permanent crops) plus permanent meadows and pastures. Land area excludes inland waters. FAOSTAT land use domain, element "Share in Land area".

Many countries report land use rarely, so FAO often carries the last figure forward and recent years can repeat earlier ones. This is the FAO series the World Bank republishes as AG.LND.AGRI.ZS. FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

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FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2026). Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209) (Agricultural land, Nigeria, 1961 to 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip

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Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209), Agricultural land, Nigeria, 1961 to 2024. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2 Oct. 2026, https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/agricultural-land-share/nigeria. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2026. Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209). Agricultural land, Nigeria, 1961 to 2024. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/agricultural-land-share/nigeria.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2026) Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209), Agricultural land, Nigeria, 1961 to 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/agricultural-land-share/nigeria (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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}
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What is the agricultural land in Nigeria?

Agricultural land in Nigeria was 77.1% in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. That is unchanged from 2023. That is the 12th highest of 224 countries in 2024.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

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77.3% in 2018, the highest value since 1961 in this series.

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