Table 1.2
Global availability of agricultural and arable land, 2005

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Global availability of agricultural and arable land, 2005
  Total land area Land used for agriculture Arable land 1 Percentage of land used for agriculture Percentage of agricultural land that is arable land 1 Global rank for arable land area
  thousands of hectares percent  
World 13,013,475 4,967,580 1,421,169 38 29  
Australia 768,230 445,149 49,402 58 11 6
Brazil 845,942 263,600 59,000 31 22 5
Canada 909,351 67,500 45,660 7 68 7
China 932,749 556,328 103,397 60 19 4
France 55,010 29,569 18,507 54 63 16
Mexico 194,395 107,500 24,800 55 23 11
United Kingdom 24,193 16,956 5,729 70 34 37
United States 916,192 414,778 174,448 45 42 1
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Arable land refers to land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted only once), temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow (less than five years).
Source(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008, FAOSTATS, http://faostat.fao.org/site/377/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=377#ancor (accessed September 18, 2008).
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