Low income - Arable land

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in Low income was 0.214 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.555 in 1961 and a minimum value of 0.214 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.

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Year Value
1961 0.555
1962 0.550
1963 0.541
1964 0.535
1965 0.526
1966 0.512
1967 0.500
1968 0.493
1969 0.485
1970 0.468
1971 0.459
1972 0.451
1973 0.439
1974 0.425
1975 0.414
1976 0.407
1977 0.397
1978 0.390
1979 0.383
1980 0.375
1981 0.365
1982 0.358
1983 0.350
1984 0.341
1985 0.334
1986 0.326
1987 0.316
1988 0.308
1989 0.300
1990 0.297
1991 0.293
1992 0.287
1993 0.280
1994 0.271
1995 0.268
1996 0.264
1997 0.259
1998 0.254
1999 0.247
2000 0.240
2001 0.238
2002 0.235
2003 0.238
2004 0.233
2005 0.232
2006 0.227
2007 0.224
2008 0.222
2009 0.219
2010 0.217
2011 0.239
2012 0.244
2013 0.241
2014 0.236
2015 0.230
2016 0.225
2017 0.219
2018 0.214

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in Low income was 9.26 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 9.26 in 2018, while its lowest value was 5.81 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 5.81
1962 5.88
1963 5.92
1964 5.98
1965 6.02
1966 6.00
1967 6.01
1968 6.08
1969 6.14
1970 6.07
1971 6.11
1972 6.15
1973 6.14
1974 6.09
1975 6.08
1976 6.13
1977 6.13
1978 6.17
1979 6.20
1980 6.22
1981 6.19
1982 6.21
1983 6.22
1984 6.21
1985 6.22
1986 6.23
1987 6.19
1988 6.21
1989 6.21
1990 6.34
1991 6.43
1992 6.50
1993 6.59
1994 6.56
1995 6.68
1996 6.78
1997 6.84
1998 6.88
1999 6.88
2000 6.88
2001 7.01
2002 7.14
2003 7.43
2004 7.42
2005 7.58
2006 7.64
2007 7.77
2008 7.92
2009 8.01
2010 8.18
2011 8.62
2012 9.03
2013 9.17
2014 9.20
2015 9.22
2016 9.26
2017 9.24
2018 9.26

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use