Table 1.2
Global availability of agricultural and arable land, 2005
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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 | |
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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 |
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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