Countries by agricultural land

Falkland Islands had the highest agricultural land of 225 countries in 2016, at 92.3%. French Guiana had the lowest, at 0.4%. The median was 35.2% and the figure for the World was 35.9%. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest92.3Falkland Islands

Lowest0.4French Guiana

Median35.2225 countries

World35.9History

Map of countries, 2016

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%, 2016. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2016

%. Source: FAOSTAT, Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use (RL): Agricultural land, share in land area, % (item 6610, element 7209). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2016 (%)	Change on 2015
1	Falkland Islands Estimated	92.3	+0.6 pts
2	Uruguay Estimated	85.5	-0.5 pts
3	Lesotho Estimated	84.7	+4.4 pts
4	Saudi Arabia Estimated	80.8	0 pts
5	Kazakhstan Estimated	80.1	-0 pts
6	Turkmenistan Estimated	79.6	+1.6 pts
7	South Africa Estimated	79.4	0 pts
8	Rwanda Estimated	79.4	-0.7 pts
9	Comoros Estimated	78.6	+6 pts
10	Uganda Estimated	78.4	+0.4 pts
11	Nigeria Estimated	76	+1.2 pts
12	Syria Estimated	75.8	-0 pts
13	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	75.7	-1.6 pts
14	Burundi Estimated	74.9	+1.1 pts
15	Haiti Estimated	74.4	+0.6 pts
16	Djibouti Estimated	73.5	0 pts
17	Mongolia Estimated	72.9	-0.1 pts
18	Isle of Man Estimated	72.9	-0.2 pts
19	Palestine Estimated	72.2	+0.7 pts
20	United Kingdom Estimated	71.7	+0.9 pts
21	Ukraine Estimated	71.7	0 pts
22	Bangladesh Estimated	70.6	+0.2 pts
23	Moldova Estimated	70.5	0 pts
24	Somalia Estimated	70.3	0 pts
25	Madagascar Estimated	70.3	0 pts
26	Eswatini Estimated	70.2	-0.2 pts
27	Morocco Estimated	69.2	+1.9 pts
28	Faroe Islands Estimated	69	-0 pts
29	Togo Estimated	68.8	0 pts
30	Guinea Estimated	68.1	+0.5 pts
31	Denmark Estimated	65.6	-0.2 pts
32	Lebanon Estimated	65.2	+0.4 pts
33	Ireland Estimated	64.8	+0.5 pts
34	Gambia Estimated	64.1	+0.5 pts
35	Eritrea Estimated	62.8	0 pts
36	Tunisia Estimated	62.5	-0.8 pts
37	Malawi Estimated	61.7	+1.3 pts
38	India Estimated	60.4	-0 pts
39	Tokelau Estimated	60	0 pts
39	Tuvalu Estimated	60	0 pts
41	Sudan Estimated	60	+0.2 pts
42	Burkina Faso Estimated	59.9	+0.4 pts
43	Cuba Estimated	59.9	-0.1 pts
44	Armenia Estimated	58.9	0 pts
45	Romania Estimated	58.8	-1.5 pts
46	El Salvador Estimated	58.6	-0.4 pts
47	Afghanistan Estimated	58.1	0 pts
48	Uzbekistan Estimated	58	0 pts
49	Hungary Estimated	57.9	+0.2 pts
50	Azerbaijan Estimated	57.7	0 pts
51	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	55	-0.1 pts
52	Sierra Leone Estimated	54.7	0 pts
53	Mayotte Estimated	54.7	0 pts
54	Mozambique Estimated	54.5	+0.6 pts
55	Ghana Estimated	54.3	-0.3 pts
56	Netherlands Estimated	53.9	-0.9 pts
57	France Estimated	53.3	-0 pts
58	Spain Estimated	52.6	-0.6 pts
59	Paraguay Estimated	50.8	+0.5 pts
60	Luxembourg Estimated	50.8	-0.2 pts
61	Mexico Estimated	50.6	-0.2 pts
62	North Macedonia Estimated	50.2	+0.1 pts
63	Türkiye Estimated	49.8	-0.3 pts
64	Kenya Estimated	49	0 pts
65	Senegal Estimated	48.2	-0.2 pts
66	Tonga Estimated	48.1	+2.1 pts
67	Zimbabwe Estimated	48.1	-0 pts
68	Dominican Republic Estimated	47.8	+0.8 pts
69	Pakistan Estimated	47.7	+0.8 pts
70	Germany Estimated	47.7	-0.3 pts
71	Greece Estimated	47.6	-0.5 pts
72	Lithuania Estimated	47.2	-0.8 pts
73	Namibia Estimated	47.1	0 pts
74	Poland Estimated	46.9	0 pts
75	United States Estimated	46.6	+0.1 pts
76	Bulgaria Estimated	46.3	+0.1 pts
77	Botswana Estimated	45.6	0 pts
78	Czechia Estimated	45.2	-0.1 pts
79	Marshall Islands Estimated	45.1	0 pts
80	South Sudan Estimated	44.9	-0.1 pts
81	Thailand Estimated	44.7	-0 pts
82	Australia Estimated	44.5	-0.8 pts
83	Belgium Estimated	44.5	+0.8 pts
84	Sri Lanka Estimated	44.4	+0.2 pts
85	Yemen Estimated	44.3	-0.1 pts
86	Guatemala Estimated	44	+0.5 pts
87	Argentina Estimated	43.8	-0.4 pts
88	Tanzania Estimated	43.6	+0.2 pts
89	Italy Estimated	43.3	-0.4 pts
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	43.1	+0.6 pts
91	Albania Estimated	43.1	+0.3 pts
92	China Estimated	42.9	-0.4 pts
93	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	42.5	+0.9 pts
94	Nicaragua Estimated	42.2	0 pts
95	Philippines Estimated	42.1	+0.1 pts
96	Belarus Estimated	42	-0.2 pts
97	Kiribati Estimated	42	0 pts
98	Mauritius Estimated	40.6	-0.1 pts
99	Colombia Estimated	40.4	-0 pts
100	New Zealand Estimated	40.3	-0.4 pts
101	Andorra Estimated	40	0 pts
102	Chad Estimated	40	+0.1 pts
103	Portugal Estimated	39.7	-0.7 pts
104	Serbia Estimated	39.5	-0.3 pts
105	Slovakia Estimated	39.2	-0.1 pts
106	Jamaica Estimated	39.1	0 pts
107	San Marino Estimated	39	+0.7 pts
108	Vietnam Estimated	38.8	+0.1 pts
109	Mauritania Estimated	38.5	0 pts
110	Switzerland Estimated	38.3	-0.1 pts
111	Niger Estimated	36.5	+0.1 pts
112	Angola Estimated	35.9	-0.1 pts
113	Bolivia Estimated	35.2	-0.1 pts
114	Georgia Estimated	34.6	-0.3 pts
115	Benin Estimated	34.4	-1.7 pts
116	Costa Rica Estimated	34.3	-0.1 pts
117	Mali Estimated	33.4	0 pts
118	Ethiopia Estimated	33.2	+0.2 pts
119	British Virgin Islands Estimated	32.9	+1 pts
120	Dominica Estimated	32.7	0 pts
121	Liechtenstein Estimated	32.6	-0.1 pts
122	Malta Estimated	32.4	+0.5 pts
123	Austria Estimated	32.4	-0.6 pts
124	Cambodia Estimated	32.3	+0.3 pts
125	Zambia Estimated	31.9	0 pts
126	Guam Estimated	31.5	0 pts
127	Republic of the Congo Estimated	31.1	0 pts
128	Latvia Estimated	31	+0.8 pts
129	Saint Helena Estimated	30.8	0 pts
130	Slovenia Estimated	30.7	+0.1 pts
131	Montserrat Estimated	30	0 pts
132	Guadeloupe Estimated	28.7	-0.5 pts
133	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	28.4	+0.1 pts
134	Honduras Estimated	28.3	-0.2 pts
135	Brazil Estimated	28.3	+0.1 pts
136	Iran Estimated	28.2	0 pts
137	Indonesia Estimated	27.9	+0.3 pts
138	Panama Estimated	27.8	-0.5 pts
139	Nepal Estimated	27.7	-0.2 pts
140	Croatia Estimated	27.6	+0.2 pts
141	Martinique Estimated	27.6	-0.5 pts
142	Tajikistan Estimated	27.4	+0.3 pts
143	Malaysia Estimated	26.1	+0.1 pts
144	Israel Estimated	25.5	+0.8 pts
145	Norfolk Island Estimated	25	0 pts
145	Wallis and Futuna Estimated	25	0 pts
147	Cape Verde Estimated	24.8	-0.1 pts
148	Venezuela Estimated	24.4	0 pts
149	Samoa Estimated	24.3	-2.4 pts
150	Grenada Estimated	23.5	0 pts
151	Barbados Estimated	23.3	-2.3 pts
152	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	23.1	0 pts
153	Estonia Estimated	23.1	+0.2 pts
154	Timor-Leste Estimated	22.9	0 pts
155	Taiwan Estimated	22.4	-0.1 pts
156	Ecuador Estimated	22.2	-1.1 pts
157	North Korea Estimated	21.6	-0.2 pts
158	Maldives Estimated	21.3	0 pts
159	Iraq Estimated	21.3	+0.1 pts
160	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	21.1	0 pts
161	Cameroon Estimated	20.6	0 pts
162	Puerto Rico Estimated	20.1	-0.5 pts
163	American Samoa Estimated	20.1	0 pts
164	Myanmar Estimated	19.6	0 pts
165	Liberia Estimated	19.2	+0.3 pts
166	Montenegro Estimated	19	+1.8 pts
167	Western Sahara Estimated	18.8	0 pts
168	Peru Estimated	18.8	-0.3 pts
169	Iceland Estimated	18.7	0 pts
170	Niue Estimated	18.5	0 pts
171	Nauru Estimated	18.4	0 pts
172	Réunion Estimated	18	-0.2 pts
172	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	18	0 pts
174	Fiji Estimated	17.9	-0.2 pts
175	South Korea Estimated	17.5	-0.4 pts
176	Algeria Estimated	17.4	-0 pts
177	Chile Estimated	17	-0.5 pts
178	Saint Lucia Estimated	16.3	0 pts
179	Cook Islands Estimated	15.7	-0 pts
180	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	14.9	+0.1 pts
181	Bhutan Estimated	13.6	-0.2 pts
182	Vanuatu Estimated	13.3	0 pts
183	Japan Estimated	13.2	-0.1 pts
184	Russia Estimated	13.2	0 pts
185	Jordan Estimated	12	+0.1 pts
186	U.S. Virgin Islands Estimated	11.9	+0.1 pts
187	Cyprus Estimated	11.8	-1.9 pts
188	Cayman Islands Estimated	11.3	0 pts
189	Aruba Estimated	11.1	0 pts
190	Bahrain Estimated	10.6	-0.1 pts
191	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	10.5	0 pts
192	Laos Estimated	10.5	+0.1 pts
193	New Caledonia Estimated	10.3	0 pts
194	Palau Estimated	9.4	0 pts
195	French Polynesia Estimated	9	-0.1 pts
196	Libya Estimated	8.7	0 pts
197	Saint Pierre and Miquelon Estimated	8.7	0 pts
198	Kuwait Estimated	8.4	0 pts
199	Central African Republic Estimated	7.9	0 pts
200	Micronesia Estimated	7.8	-0 pts
201	Finland Estimated	7.5	0 pts
202	Belize Estimated	7.5	0 pts
203	Sweden Estimated	7.4	-0 pts
204	Gabon Estimated	6.9	-0 pts
205	Canada Estimated	6.5	0 pts
206	Qatar Estimated	6.2	0 pts
207	Bermuda Estimated	5.6	0 pts
208	United Arab Emirates Estimated	5.4	0 pts
209	Hong Kong Estimated	4.8	-0.1 pts
210	Oman Estimated	4.6	0 pts
211	Egypt Estimated	3.8	-0.1 pts
212	Northern Mariana Islands Estimated	3.7	0 pts
213	Solomon Islands Estimated	3.7	+0.1 pts
214	Guyana Estimated	3.7	0 pts
215	Equatorial Guinea Estimated	3.6	-0 pts
216	Seychelles Estimated	3	-0.1 pts
217	Papua New Guinea Estimated	2.9	0 pts
218	Brunei Estimated	2.9	+0.2 pts
219	Norway Estimated	2.7	-0 pts
220	Bahamas Estimated	1.3	0 pts
221	Turks and Caicos Islands Estimated	1.1	0 pts
222	Singapore Estimated	0.9	0 pts
223	Greenland Estimated	0.6	0 pts
224	Suriname Estimated	0.5	0 pts
225	French Guiana Estimated	0.4	0 pts

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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. Equal values share a rank.

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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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@misc{food_countries_by_agricultural_land_2016,
  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, 2016}},
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  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/agricultural-land-share/countries?period=2016. Publisher attribution: 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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Which country has the highest agricultural land?

Falkland Islands, with 92.3% in 2016, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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French Guiana, with 0.4% in 2016.

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