Countries by agricultural land, 2024
Tuvalu had the highest agricultural land of 224 countries in 2024, at 100%. Suriname had the lowest, at 0.5%. The median was 36.2% and the figure for the World was 36%. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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Top 40 countries, 2024
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| Rank | Countries | 2024 (%) | Change on 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuvalu Estimated | 100 | 0 pts |
| 2 | Falkland Islands Estimated | 93.2 | 0 pts |
| 3 | Lesotho Estimated | 92.9 | 0 pts |
| 4 | Uruguay Estimated | 87.4 | -0.3 pts |
| 5 | Turkmenistan Estimated | 84.3 | +0.1 pts |
| 6 | Côte d’Ivoire Estimated | 83.9 | +2.4 pts |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia Estimated | 81.7 | +0.7 pts |
| 8 | Uganda Estimated | 80.3 | 0 pts |
| 9 | South Africa Estimated | 79.4 | 0 pts |
| 10 | Kazakhstan Estimated | 79.2 | 0 pts |
| 11 | Comoros Estimated | 78.9 | -0.6 pts |
| 12 | Nigeria Estimated | 77.1 | 0 pts |
| 13 | Gambia Estimated | 76.1 | +0.1 pts |
| 14 | Rwanda Estimated | 75.7 | +0.4 pts |
| 15 | Burundi Estimated | 74.2 | -2.3 pts |
| 16 | Syria Estimated | 74.1 | 0 pts |
| 17 | Djibouti Estimated | 73.5 | 0 pts |
| 18 | Moldova Estimated | 73.2 | -0.9 pts |
| 19 | Guinea Estimated | 73.2 | +0.1 pts |
| 20 | Bangladesh Estimated | 72.2 | 0 pts |
| 21 | Ukraine Estimated | 71.3 | 0 pts |
| 22 | Madagascar Estimated | 70.4 | 0 pts |
| 23 | Somalia Estimated | 70.3 | 0 pts |
| 24 | Faroe Islands Estimated | 70.1 | 0 pts |
| 25 | Eswatini Estimated | 69.6 | 0 pts |
| 26 | United Kingdom Estimated | 69.2 | -1.1 pts |
| 27 | Togo Estimated | 69.1 | +0.1 pts |
| 28 | Mongolia Estimated | 68.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 29 | Isle of Man Estimated | 68.3 | -0.6 pts |
| 30 | Morocco Estimated | 67.2 | 0 pts |
| 31 | Ireland Estimated | 65.2 | +4.3 pts |
| 32 | Haiti Estimated | 65.1 | 0 pts |
| 33 | Denmark Estimated | 65.1 | -0.4 pts |
| 34 | Malawi Estimated | 65 | 0 pts |
| 35 | Palestine Estimated | 64.9 | 0 pts |
| 36 | Lebanon Estimated | 63.7 | -2.4 pts |
| 37 | Eritrea Estimated | 62.8 | 0 pts |
| 38 | Burkina Faso Estimated | 62.6 | -0 pts |
| 39 | Tunisia Estimated | 62.1 | 0 pts |
| 40 | Cuba Estimated | 61.7 | 0 pts |
| 41 | Sudan Estimated | 60.3 | 0 pts |
| 42 | India Estimated | 59.9 | -0.1 pts |
| 43 | Armenia Estimated | 59.4 | +0.8 pts |
| 44 | Uzbekistan Estimated | 59 | +0.5 pts |
| 45 | Afghanistan Estimated | 58.4 | -0 pts |
| 46 | Azerbaijan Estimated | 57.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 47 | El Salvador Estimated | 57.3 | -0.1 pts |
| 48 | Mozambique Estimated | 56.1 | -0 pts |
| 49 | Hungary Estimated | 55.5 | -0.2 pts |
| 50 | Ghana Estimated | 55.4 | 0 pts |
| 51 | Sierra Leone Estimated | 55.2 | +0.5 pts |
| 52 | Romania Estimated | 55.2 | -0.1 pts |
| 53 | Paraguay Estimated | 54.1 | 0 pts |
| 54 | Kyrgyzstan Estimated | 54 | -0 pts |
| 55 | Netherlands Estimated | 53.4 | -0.1 pts |
| 56 | Mayotte Estimated | 53 | 0 pts |
| 57 | France Estimated | 52.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 58 | Luxembourg Estimated | 51.7 | 0 pts |
| 59 | Dominican Republic Estimated | 51.5 | +1.1 pts |
| 60 | Mexico Estimated | 50.6 | -0.1 pts |
| 61 | Türkiye Estimated | 50.2 | +0.1 pts |
| 62 | Kenya Estimated | 50 | +0.1 pts |
| 63 | Tokelau Estimated | 50 | 0 pts |
| 64 | Senegal Estimated | 49.4 | 0 pts |
| 65 | Spain Estimated | 49.3 | -0.3 pts |
| 66 | North Macedonia Estimated | 49.2 | -0.4 pts |
| 67 | Sri Lanka Estimated | 48.8 | +0.2 pts |
| 68 | Tonga Estimated | 48.5 | 0 pts |
| 69 | Zimbabwe Estimated | 48.1 | 0 pts |
| 70 | Germany Estimated | 47.4 | -0 pts |
| 71 | Australia Estimated | 47.3 | 0 pts |
| 72 | Pakistan Estimated | 47.2 | +0.5 pts |
| 73 | Namibia Estimated | 47.1 | 0 pts |
| 74 | Poland Estimated | 46.2 | -1.4 pts |
| 75 | Bulgaria Estimated | 46.2 | +0.1 pts |
| 76 | São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated | 46.1 | 0 pts |
| 77 | United States Estimated | 46.1 | 0 pts |
| 78 | Guatemala Estimated | 46 | 0 pts |
| 79 | Argentina Estimated | 45.8 | +0.1 pts |
| 80 | Czechia Estimated | 45.8 | 0 pts |
| 81 | Lithuania Estimated | 45.7 | -0.2 pts |
| 82 | Botswana Estimated | 45.6 | 0 pts |
| 83 | Tanzania Estimated | 45.1 | 0 pts |
| 84 | South Sudan Estimated | 44.7 | 0 pts |
| 85 | Yemen Estimated | 44.4 | 0 pts |
| 86 | Belgium Estimated | 44.4 | 0 pts |
| 87 | Italy Estimated | 43.6 | +2.1 pts |
| 88 | Thailand Estimated | 43.3 | 0 pts |
| 89 | Benin Estimated | 43.1 | +0.4 pts |
| 90 | Philippines Estimated | 42.8 | +0.2 pts |
| 91 | San Marino Estimated | 42.3 | 0 pts |
| 92 | Kiribati Estimated | 41.9 | 0 pts |
| 93 | Andorra Estimated | 41.9 | +1.8 pts |
| 94 | China Estimated | 41.7 | 0 pts |
| 95 | Portugal Estimated | 41.3 | -0.5 pts |
| 96 | Albania Estimated | 41.1 | -0.1 pts |
| 97 | Mauritius Estimated | 40.9 | 0 pts |
| 98 | Marshall Islands Estimated | 40.1 | -0.7 pts |
| 99 | Chad Estimated | 40 | 0 pts |
| 100 | Vietnam Estimated | 39.2 | 0 pts |
| 101 | Belarus Estimated | 39.1 | -0.5 pts |
| 102 | Jamaica Estimated | 39.1 | 0 pts |
| 103 | Greece Estimated | 38.9 | 0 pts |
| 104 | Mauritania Estimated | 38.5 | 0 pts |
| 105 | Serbia Estimated | 38.1 | -0.7 pts |
| 106 | Slovakia Estimated | 37.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 107 | British Virgin Islands Estimated | 37.8 | 0 pts |
| 108 | Switzerland Estimated | 37.7 | -0.1 pts |
| 109 | New Zealand Estimated | 36.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 110 | Niger Estimated | 36.8 | 0 pts |
| 111 | Colombia Estimated | 36.5 | 0 pts |
| 112 | Angola Estimated | 36.3 | 0 pts |
| 113 | Bolivia Estimated | 36.1 | +0.1 pts |
| 114 | Cambodia Estimated | 34.7 | -0 pts |
| 115 | Ethiopia Estimated | 34.3 | 0 pts |
| 116 | Mali Estimated | 34.2 | -0 pts |
| 117 | Georgia Estimated | 33.7 | -0.3 pts |
| 118 | Dominica Estimated | 32.6 | 0 pts |
| 119 | Liechtenstein Estimated | 32.3 | 0 pts |
| 120 | Zambia Estimated | 32.1 | 0 pts |
| 121 | Latvia Estimated | 31.7 | 0 pts |
| 122 | Costa Rica Estimated | 31.4 | 0 pts |
| 123 | Guinea-Bissau Estimated | 31.4 | +1 pts |
| 124 | Republic of the Congo Estimated | 31.2 | 0 pts |
| 125 | Austria Estimated | 31.1 | -0 pts |
| 126 | Saint Helena Estimated | 30.8 | 0 pts |
| 127 | Slovenia Estimated | 30.4 | 0 pts |
| 128 | Guam Estimated | 29.6 | 0 pts |
| 129 | Martinique Estimated | 29.5 | +0.1 pts |
| 130 | Montserrat Estimated | 29.4 | 0 pts |
| 131 | Iran Estimated | 29 | 0 pts |
| 132 | Indonesia Estimated | 28.9 | 0 pts |
| 133 | Guadeloupe Estimated | 28.7 | -0.1 pts |
| 134 | Honduras Estimated | 28.5 | +0.3 pts |
| 135 | Brazil Estimated | 28.4 | 0 pts |
| 136 | Tajikistan Estimated | 28 | +0.1 pts |
| 137 | Norfolk Island Estimated | 27.8 | 0 pts |
| 138 | Croatia Estimated | 26.2 | -0.3 pts |
| 139 | Nepal Estimated | 26.1 | 0 pts |
| 140 | Malta Estimated | 25.5 | -0.9 pts |
| 141 | Cape Verde Estimated | 24.8 | -0.1 pts |
| 141 | Malaysia Estimated | 24.8 | -0.2 pts |
| 143 | Wallis and Futuna Estimated | 24.7 | 0 pts |
| 144 | Venezuela Estimated | 24.4 | 0 pts |
| 145 | Israel Estimated | 23.8 | -1 pts |
| 146 | Grenada Estimated | 23.3 | 0 pts |
| 147 | Barbados Estimated | 23.2 | -0.1 pts |
| 148 | Panama Estimated | 23.1 | -0.5 pts |
| 149 | Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated | 23 | 0 pts |
| 150 | Estonia Estimated | 23 | -0.1 pts |
| 151 | Timor-Leste Estimated | 23 | 0 pts |
| 152 | Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated | 22.4 | +0.7 pts |
| 153 | Taiwan Estimated | 21.9 | -0 pts |
| 154 | Iraq Estimated | 21.7 | 0 pts |
| 155 | North Korea Estimated | 21.6 | 0 pts |
| 156 | Antigua and Barbuda Estimated | 21.1 | 0 pts |
| 157 | Cameroon Estimated | 21.1 | +0.1 pts |
| 158 | Ecuador Estimated | 20.3 | -1.3 pts |
| 159 | Liberia Estimated | 20.1 | 0 pts |
| 160 | Myanmar Estimated | 19.9 | 0 pts |
| 161 | Maldives Estimated | 19.8 | 0 pts |
| 162 | Peru Estimated | 19 | -0.1 pts |
| 163 | Western Sahara Estimated | 18.8 | 0 pts |
| 164 | Puerto Rico Estimated | 18.5 | -0.8 pts |
| 165 | Niue Estimated | 18.5 | 0 pts |
| 166 | Montenegro Estimated | 18.5 | -1.1 pts |
| 167 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated | 18 | 0 pts |
| 168 | Samoa Estimated | 17.8 | +0.2 pts |
| 169 | Algeria Estimated | 17.4 | -0 pts |
| 170 | Fiji Estimated | 17 | -0.1 pts |
| 171 | Saint Lucia Estimated | 16.3 | 0 pts |
| 172 | Iceland Estimated | 16.3 | 0 pts |
| 173 | Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated | 16.2 | +0.2 pts |
| 174 | Nauru Estimated | 16.1 | 0 pts |
| 175 | South Korea Estimated | 16 | -0.1 pts |
| 176 | Réunion Estimated | 15.9 | -0.2 pts |
| 177 | Cook Islands Estimated | 15.9 | 0 pts |
| 178 | Chile Estimated | 14.4 | 0 pts |
| 179 | Bhutan Estimated | 13.8 | 0 pts |
| 180 | American Samoa Estimated | 13.6 | 0 pts |
| 181 | Cyprus Estimated | 13.6 | 0 pts |
| 182 | Vanuatu Estimated | 13.3 | 0 pts |
| 183 | Russia Estimated | 13.2 | 0 pts |
| 184 | Japan Estimated | 12.6 | -0.1 pts |
| 185 | Trinidad and Tobago Estimated | 11.6 | +1.1 pts |
| 186 | Jordan Estimated | 11.6 | -0 pts |
| 187 | Cayman Islands Estimated | 11.3 | 0 pts |
| 188 | Aruba Estimated | 11.1 | 0 pts |
| 189 | Bahrain Estimated | 10.3 | 0 pts |
| 190 | New Caledonia Estimated | 9.8 | 0 pts |
| 191 | Laos Estimated | 9.5 | -0 pts |
| 192 | Palau Estimated | 9.4 | -0 pts |
| 193 | Central African Republic Estimated | 9.3 | +0.2 pts |
| 194 | Libya Estimated | 8.7 | 0 pts |
| 195 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon Estimated | 8.7 | 0 pts |
| 196 | Kuwait Estimated | 8.4 | 0 pts |
| 197 | U.S. Virgin Islands Estimated | 8.3 | -1.1 pts |
| 198 | Belize Estimated | 8.2 | +0.2 pts |
| 199 | French Polynesia Estimated | 8.1 | -0.1 pts |
| 200 | Micronesia Estimated | 7.7 | 0 pts |
| 201 | Finland Estimated | 7.4 | -0 pts |
| 202 | Sweden Estimated | 7.3 | -0 pts |
| 203 | Gabon Estimated | 6.9 | 0 pts |
| 204 | Canada Estimated | 6.5 | -0 pts |
| 205 | Qatar Estimated | 6.4 | 0 pts |
| 206 | United Arab Emirates Estimated | 5.6 | 0 pts |
| 207 | Bermuda Estimated | 5.6 | 0 pts |
| 208 | Oman Estimated | 4.8 | 0 pts |
| 209 | Egypt Estimated | 4.3 | +0.1 pts |
| 210 | Solomon Islands Estimated | 4.1 | +0.1 pts |
| 211 | Hong Kong Estimated | 3.8 | 0 pts |
| 212 | Equatorial Guinea Estimated | 3.4 | 0 pts |
| 213 | Guyana Estimated | 3.4 | 0 pts |
| 214 | Seychelles Estimated | 3.4 | -0 pts |
| 215 | Papua New Guinea Estimated | 3.1 | 0 pts |
| 216 | Brunei Estimated | 2.9 | 0 pts |
| 217 | Norway Estimated | 2.7 | 0 pts |
| 218 | Northern Mariana Islands Estimated | 2.3 | 0 pts |
| 219 | Bahamas Estimated | 1.3 | 0 pts |
| 220 | Turks and Caicos Islands Estimated | 1.1 | 0 pts |
| 221 | Singapore Estimated | 0.9 | 0 pts |
| 222 | Greenland Estimated | 0.6 | 0 pts |
| 223 | French Guiana Estimated | 0.5 | -0 pts |
| 224 | Suriname Estimated | 0.5 | 0 pts |
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About this ranking
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.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 1 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2024 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
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) (Countries by agricultural land, 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), Countries by agricultural land, 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/rankings/agricultural-land-share/countries. 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), Countries by agricultural land, 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/agricultural-land-share/countries (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
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author = {{Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations}},
title = {{Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, \% (item 6610, element 7209): Countries by agricultural land, 2024}},
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Which country has the highest agricultural land?
Tuvalu, with 100% in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Which country has the lowest agricultural land?
Suriname, with 0.5% in 2024.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: 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 2026-10-12. 1 countries have no value for 2024 and are not ranked.