# EU countries by agricultural land, 2024

All 27 values come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `agricultural_land_share`
- Unit: %
- 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".
- Source: 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) (https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip)
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- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/agricultural-land-share/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ireland | 65.2 |
| 2 | Denmark | 65.1 |
| 3 | Hungary | 55.5 |
| 4 | Romania | 55.2 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 53.4 |
| 6 | France | 52.8 |
| 7 | Luxembourg | 51.7 |
| 8 | Spain | 49.3 |
| 9 | Germany | 47.4 |
| 10 | Poland | 46.2 |
| 11 | Bulgaria | 46.2 |
| 12 | Czechia | 45.8 |
| 13 | Lithuania | 45.7 |
| 14 | Belgium | 44.4 |
| 15 | Italy | 43.6 |
| 16 | Portugal | 41.3 |
| 17 | Greece | 38.9 |
| 18 | Slovakia | 37.8 |
| 19 | Latvia | 31.7 |
| 20 | Austria | 31.1 |
| 21 | Slovenia | 30.4 |
| 22 | Croatia | 26.2 |
| 23 | Malta | 25.5 |
| 24 | Estonia | 23 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 13.6 |
| 26 | Finland | 7.4 |
| 27 | Sweden | 7.3 |