Romania - Arable land

Arable land (hectares)

The value for Arable land (hectares) in Romania was 8,686,000 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10,107,000 in 1988 and a minimum value of 8,543,000 in 2017.

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.

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Year Value
1961 9,853,000
1962 9,922,000
1963 9,853,000
1964 9,827,000
1965 9,814,000
1966 9,797,000
1967 9,799,000
1968 9,797,000
1969 9,771,000
1970 9,733,000
1971 9,728,000
1972 9,713,000
1973 9,658,000
1974 9,703,000
1975 9,741,000
1976 9,760,000
1977 9,781,000
1978 9,803,000
1979 9,817,000
1980 9,834,000
1981 9,849,000
1982 9,870,000
1983 9,904,000
1984 9,935,000
1985 9,985,000
1986 10,005,000
1987 10,080,000
1988 10,107,000
1989 9,458,000
1990 9,450,000
1991 9,423,000
1992 9,357,000
1993 9,341,000
1994 9,339,000
1995 9,337,000
1996 9,337,000
1997 9,346,000
1998 9,325,000
1999 9,332,000
2000 9,381,000
2001 9,371,000
2002 9,376,000
2003 9,377,000
2004 8,915,000
2005 8,985,000
2006 8,939,000
2007 8,675,000
2008 8,721,000
2009 8,789,000
2010 9,146,000
2011 8,995,000
2012 8,798,000
2013 8,746,000
2014 8,778,000
2015 8,778,000
2016 8,582,000
2017 8,543,000
2018 8,686,000

Arable land (hectares per person)

The value for Arable land (hectares per person) in Romania was 0.446 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.531 in 1962 and a minimum value of 0.407 in 1990.

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 0.531
1962 0.531
1963 0.524
1964 0.519
1965 0.516
1966 0.510
1967 0.502
1968 0.495
1969 0.488
1970 0.481
1971 0.475
1972 0.470
1973 0.464
1974 0.461
1975 0.457
1976 0.453
1977 0.450
1978 0.447
1979 0.444
1980 0.443
1981 0.441
1982 0.439
1983 0.439
1984 0.439
1985 0.439
1986 0.438
1987 0.439
1988 0.438
1989 0.408
1990 0.407
1991 0.410
1992 0.410
1993 0.410
1994 0.411
1995 0.412
1996 0.413
1997 0.414
1998 0.414
1999 0.415
2000 0.418
2001 0.423
2002 0.431
2003 0.435
2004 0.416
2005 0.421
2006 0.422
2007 0.415
2008 0.425
2009 0.432
2010 0.452
2011 0.446
2012 0.439
2013 0.438
2014 0.441
2015 0.443
2016 0.436
2017 0.436
2018 0.446

Arable land (% of land area)

Arable land (% of land area) in Romania was 37.75 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 43.88 in 1988, while its lowest value was 37.13 in 2017.

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 42.78
1962 43.08
1963 42.78
1964 42.66
1965 42.61
1966 42.53
1967 42.54
1968 42.53
1969 42.42
1970 42.25
1971 42.23
1972 42.17
1973 41.93
1974 42.12
1975 42.29
1976 42.37
1977 42.46
1978 42.56
1979 42.62
1980 42.69
1981 42.76
1982 42.85
1983 43.00
1984 43.13
1985 43.35
1986 43.44
1987 43.76
1988 43.88
1989 41.24
1990 41.20
1991 41.07
1992 40.78
1993 40.71
1994 40.69
1995 40.69
1996 40.68
1997 40.72
1998 40.62
1999 40.64
2000 40.84
2001 40.79
2002 40.79
2003 40.78
2004 38.76
2005 39.07
2006 38.87
2007 37.74
2008 37.93
2009 38.20
2010 39.76
2011 39.08
2012 38.25
2013 38.02
2014 38.15
2015 38.15
2016 37.30
2017 37.13
2018 37.75

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use