El Salvador - Arable land

Arable land (hectares)

The value for Arable land (hectares) in El Salvador was 627,000 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 706,000 in 2014 and a minimum value of 450,000 in 1970.

Definition: Arable land (in hectares) 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 488,000
1962 488,000
1963 488,000
1964 485,000
1965 480,000
1966 470,000
1967 460,000
1968 458,000
1969 455,000
1970 450,000
1971 488,000
1972 488,000
1973 488,000
1974 488,000
1975 488,000
1976 475,000
1977 475,000
1978 515,000
1979 560,000
1980 558,000
1981 516,000
1982 479,000
1983 470,000
1984 480,000
1985 500,000
1986 520,000
1987 520,000
1988 540,000
1989 540,000
1990 550,000
1991 565,000
1992 588,000
1993 586,000
1994 584,000
1995 582,000
1996 565,000
1997 565,000
1998 600,000
1999 631,000
2000 650,000
2001 700,000
2002 690,000
2003 681,000
2004 694,000
2005 702,000
2006 604,000
2007 630,000
2008 670,000
2009 669,000
2010 663,000
2011 672,000
2012 694,000
2013 689,000
2014 706,000
2015 671,000
2016 693,000
2017 637,000
2018 627,000

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in El Salvador was 0.098 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.171 in 1961 and a minimum value of 0.098 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 0.171
1962 0.166
1963 0.162
1964 0.156
1965 0.150
1966 0.143
1967 0.136
1968 0.132
1969 0.127
1970 0.123
1971 0.129
1972 0.126
1973 0.123
1974 0.120
1975 0.117
1976 0.112
1977 0.109
1978 0.116
1979 0.124
1980 0.122
1981 0.111
1982 0.101
1983 0.098
1984 0.099
1985 0.101
1986 0.104
1987 0.103
1988 0.105
1989 0.104
1990 0.104
1991 0.106
1992 0.109
1993 0.107
1994 0.105
1995 0.103
1996 0.099
1997 0.098
1998 0.103
1999 0.108
2000 0.110
2001 0.118
2002 0.116
2003 0.114
2004 0.115
2005 0.116
2006 0.099
2007 0.103
2008 0.109
2009 0.109
2010 0.107
2011 0.108
2012 0.111
2013 0.110
2014 0.112
2015 0.106
2016 0.109
2017 0.100
2018 0.098

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in El Salvador was 30.26 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 34.07 in 2014, while its lowest value was 21.58 in 1970.

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 23.41
1962 23.41
1963 23.41
1964 23.26
1965 23.02
1966 22.54
1967 22.06
1968 21.97
1969 21.82
1970 21.58
1971 23.41
1972 23.41
1973 23.41
1974 23.41
1975 23.41
1976 22.92
1977 22.92
1978 24.86
1979 27.03
1980 26.93
1981 24.90
1982 23.12
1983 22.68
1984 23.17
1985 24.13
1986 25.10
1987 25.10
1988 26.06
1989 26.06
1990 26.54
1991 27.27
1992 28.38
1993 28.28
1994 28.19
1995 28.09
1996 27.27
1997 27.27
1998 28.96
1999 30.45
2000 31.37
2001 33.78
2002 33.30
2003 32.87
2004 33.49
2005 33.88
2006 29.15
2007 30.41
2008 32.34
2009 32.29
2010 32.00
2011 32.43
2012 33.49
2013 33.25
2014 34.07
2015 32.38
2016 33.45
2017 30.74
2018 30.26

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use