Arable Land by Country

Country Name Country Code Arable land (% of land area) Afghanistan AFG 11.92 Albania ALB 22.52 Algeria DZA 3.15 American Samoa ASM 15.00 Andorra AND 6.17 Angola AGO 3.93 Antigua and Barbuda ATG 9.09 Arab World ARB 4.12 Argentina ARG 14.51 Armenia ARM 15.74 Aruba ABW 11.11 Australia AUS 6.02 Austria AUT 16.41 Azerbaijan AZE 23.29 Bahamas, The BHS 0.80 Bahrain BHR 2.08 Bangladesh BGD 58.98 Barbados BRB 25.58 Belarus BLR 27.47 Belgium BEL 26.95 Belize BLZ 3.42 Benin BEN 23.94 Bermuda BMU 6.00 Bhutan BTN 2.63 Bolivia BOL 4.10 Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH 19.73 Botswana BWA 0.48 Brazil BRA 9.09 British Virgin Islands VGB 6.67 Brunei Darussalam BRN 0.95 Bulgaria BGR 32.05 Burkina Faso BFA 22.66 Burundi BDI 46.73 Cabo Verde CPV 13.65 Cambodia KHM 23.48 Cameroon CMR 13.12 Canada CAN 5.05 Cayman Islands CYM 0.83 Chad TCD 3.89 Channel Islands CHI 21.95 Chile CHL 1.76 China CHN 11.26 Colombia COL 1.52 Comoros COM 34.93 Congo, Dem. Rep. COD 3.13 Congo, Rep. COG 1.61 Costa Rica CRI 4.54 Cote d'Ivoire CIV 9.12 Croatia HRV 15.66 Cuba CUB 29.65 Curacao CUW Cyprus CYP 8.65 Czech Republic CZE 40.77 Denmark DNK 56.74 Djibouti DJI 0.09 Dominica DMA 8.00 Dominican Republic DOM 16.56 East Asia & Pacific EAS 9.52 Ecuador ECU 4.81 Egypt, Arab Rep. EGY 2.75 El Salvador SLV 35.23 Equatorial Guinea GNQ 4.28 Eritrea ERI 6.83 Estonia EST 14.91 Ethiopia ETH 15.12 Faroe Islands FRO 2.15 Fiji FJI 9.03 Finland FIN 7.32 France FRA 33.43 French Polynesia PYF 0.68 Gabon GAB 1.26 Gambia, The GMB 43.48 Georgia GEO 6.49 Germany DEU 34.07 Ghana GHA 20.66 Gibraltar GIB Greece GRC 19.76 Greenland GRL 0.00 Grenada GRD 8.82 Guam GUM 1.85 Guatemala GTM 9.36 Guinea GIN 12.62 Guinea-Bissau GNB 10.67 Guyana GUY 2.13 Haiti HTI 38.82 High income HIC 10.14 Honduras HND 9.12 Hong Kong SAR, China HKG 2.95 Hungary HUN 48.64 IBRD only IBD 11.47 Iceland ISL 1.21 IDA & IBRD total IBT 11.10 IDA blend IDB 13.87 IDA total IDA 10.18 India IND 52.81 Indonesia IDN 12.97 Iran, Islamic Rep. IRN 9.14 Iraq IRQ 11.51 Ireland IRL 16.16 Isle of Man IMN 38.42 Israel ISR 13.21 Italy ITA 23.21 Jamaica JAM 11.08 Japan JPN 11.62 Jordan JOR 2.60 Kazakhstan KAZ 10.89 Kenya KEN 10.19 Kiribati KIR 2.47 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. PRK 19.52 Korea, Rep. KOR 15.35 Kosovo KSV Kuwait KWT 0.59 Kyrgyz Republic KGZ 6.65 Lao PDR LAO 6.45 Latvia LVA 19.42 Lebanon LBN 12.90 Lesotho LSO 8.17 Liberia LBR 5.19 Libya LBY 0.98 Liechtenstein LIE 16.25 Lithuania LTU 36.55 Low income LIC 9.48 Lower middle income LMC 18.17 Luxembourg LUX 24.11 Macao SAR, China MAC Macedonia, FYR MKD 16.38 Madagascar MDG 6.02 Malawi MWI 40.31 Malaysia MYS 2.90 Maldives MDV 13.00 Mali MLI 5.25 Malta MLT 28.03 Marshall Islands MHL 11.11 Mauritania MRT 0.44 Mauritius MUS 36.95 Mexico MEX 11.82 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. FSM 2.86 Moldova MDA 55.23 Monaco MCO Mongolia MNG 0.36 Montenegro MNE 0.58 Morocco MAR 18.03 Mozambique MOZ 7.18 Myanmar MMR 16.49 Namibia NAM 0.97 Nauru NRU Nepal NPL 14.75 Netherlands NLD 30.84 New Caledonia NCL 0.34 New Zealand NZL 2.08 Nicaragua NIC 12.50 Niger NER 12.55 Nigeria NGA 37.33 North America NAC 10.84 Northern Mariana Islands MNP 2.17 Norway NOR 2.21 Oman OMN 0.12 Pacific island small states PSS 3.68 Pakistan PAK 39.53 Palau PLW 2.17 Panama PAN 7.57 Papua New Guinea PNG 0.66 Paraguay PRY 11.33 Peru PER 3.25 Philippines PHL 18.75 Poland POL 35.24 Portugal PRT 12.18 Puerto Rico PRI 6.88 Qatar QAT 1.22 Romania ROU 38.02 Russian Federation RUS 7.46 Rwanda RWA 47.93 Samoa WSM 2.83 San Marino SMR 16.67 Sao Tome and Principe STP 9.06 Saudi Arabia SAU 1.43 Senegal SEN 16.88 Serbia SRB 37.72 Seychelles SYC 0.18 Sierra Leone SLE 21.94 Singapore SGP 0.81 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) SXM Slovak Republic SVK 28.99 Slovenia SVN 8.64 Small states SST 2.00 Solomon Islands SLB 0.71 Somalia SOM 1.75 South Africa ZAF 10.30 South Asia SAS 43.27 South Sudan SSD Spain ESP 25.13 Sri Lanka LKA 20.73 St. Kitts and Nevis KNA 19.23 St. Lucia LCA 4.92 St. Martin (French part) MAF St. Vincent and the Grenadines VCT 12.82 Sudan SDN 7.25 Suriname SUR 0.38 Eswatini(Swaziland) SWZ 10.17 Sweden SWE 6.37 Switzerland CHE 10.22 Syrian Arab Republic SYR 25.39 Tajikistan TJK 6.14 Tanzania TZA 15.24 Thailand THA 32.90 Timor-Leste TLS 10.42 Togo TGO 48.72 Tonga TON 22.22 Trinidad and Tobago TTO 4.87 Tunisia TUN 18.36 Turkey TUR 26.73 Turkmenistan TKM 4.13 Turks and Caicos Islands TCA 1.05 Tuvalu TUV Uganda UGA 34.41 Ukraine UKR 56.15 United Arab Emirates ARE 0.45 United Kingdom GBR 25.90 United States USA 16.60 Uruguay URY 13.28 Uzbekistan UZB 10.34 Vanuatu VUT 1.64 Venezuela, RB VEN 3.06 Vietnam VNM 20.67 Virgin Islands (U.S.) VIR 2.86 West Bank and Gaza PSE 7.64 World WLD 10.85 Yemen, Rep. YEM 2.36 Zambia ZMB 4.98 Zimbabwe ZWE 10.34

Arable land is basically the land that can be ploughed and used for farming. This kind of land is not usually the fertile one. It may be a barren land which can be turned into fertile arable. In such lands, crops are sown as well as harvested in the same agricultural year, and sometimes more than just once. A land can also be considered arable if it is used for mowing or pasturing, kitchen gardening and even as temporarily fallow land.The basic advantages of having arable land are - it becomes easier to produce food crops, bring out raw materials for products, a few of the crops can be used as fuel, water quality gets improved with crop rotations, food products that are produced out of pastures are healthy.Arable lands are there in almost all the countries; however, the percentage of course differs. For example, in the United States, the percentage is 10.48, India has 9.22%, in China it is 8.80%, Russia has 7.46% and Brazil has only 3.72%. Among all the countries in the world, Bangladesh tops in having the highest percentage of arable land with 59%.As per Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in 2013 out of a total 4,924 M ha land, 1,407 M ha arable land was used in the world.