Lower middle income - Arable land

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in Lower middle income was 0.132 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.347 in 1961 and a minimum value of 0.132 in 2018.

Definition: Arable land (hectares per person) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

See also:

Year Value
1961 0.347
1962 0.341
1963 0.337
1964 0.331
1965 0.328
1966 0.319
1967 0.315
1968 0.308
1969 0.304
1970 0.296
1971 0.287
1972 0.278
1973 0.277
1974 0.267
1975 0.261
1976 0.255
1977 0.245
1978 0.239
1979 0.233
1980 0.228
1981 0.220
1982 0.217
1983 0.210
1984 0.209
1985 0.207
1986 0.205
1987 0.202
1988 0.197
1989 0.194
1990 0.188
1991 0.185
1992 0.193
1993 0.190
1994 0.186
1995 0.183
1996 0.180
1997 0.177
1998 0.175
1999 0.173
2000 0.169
2001 0.166
2002 0.163
2003 0.162
2004 0.160
2005 0.157
2006 0.154
2007 0.152
2008 0.150
2009 0.147
2010 0.145
2011 0.144
2012 0.143
2013 0.140
2014 0.138
2015 0.136
2016 0.135
2017 0.134
2018 0.132

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in Lower middle income was 16.67 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 16.68 in 2017, while its lowest value was 13.72 in 1961.

Definition: Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

See also:

Year Value
1961 13.72
1962 13.78
1963 13.97
1964 14.05
1965 14.22
1966 14.17
1967 14.32
1968 14.34
1969 14.50
1970 14.47
1971 14.40
1972 14.27
1973 14.58
1974 14.39
1975 14.41
1976 14.43
1977 14.20
1978 14.22
1979 14.21
1980 14.21
1981 14.08
1982 14.26
1983 14.16
1984 14.44
1985 14.67
1986 14.87
1987 15.00
1988 15.00
1989 15.08
1990 15.02
1991 15.07
1992 15.87
1993 15.92
1994 15.94
1995 16.02
1996 16.03
1997 16.10
1998 16.14
1999 16.25
2000 16.20
2001 16.14
2002 16.19
2003 16.35
2004 16.42
2005 16.37
2006 16.35
2007 16.39
2008 16.42
2009 16.38
2010 16.37
2011 16.49
2012 16.59
2013 16.57
2014 16.55
2015 16.58
2016 16.62
2017 16.68
2018 16.67

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use