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Top 10 Countries with the Most Farmland

The countries with the largest areas of arable land for growing crops.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by arable land (hectares)
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data
  1. India

    Data year 2024

    153.8M hectares

    No change
  2. United States

    Data year 2024

    151.6M hectares

    No change
  3. Russian Federation

    Data year 2024

    121.6M hectares

    No change
  1. 4ChinaData year 2024108.5M hectaresNo change
  2. 5BrazilData year 202455.6M hectaresNo change
  3. 6ArgentinaData year 202446.8M hectaresNo change
  4. 7CanadaData year 202438.1M hectaresNo change
  5. 8NigeriaData year 202437.2M hectaresNo change
  6. 9UkraineData year 202432.9M hectaresNo change
  7. 10AustraliaData year 202431.3M hectaresNo change
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  1. 11PakistanData year 202430.7M hectaresNo change
  2. 12KazakhstanData year 202430.5M hectaresNo change
  3. 13SudanData year 202421M hectaresNo change
  4. 14TurkiyeData year 202420.2M hectaresNo change
  5. 15MexicoData year 202420M hectaresNo change
  6. 16NigerData year 202417.7M hectaresNo change
  7. 17IndonesiaData year 202417.7M hectaresNo change
  8. 18FranceData year 202416.9M hectaresNo change
  9. 19Congo, Dem. Rep.Data year 202416.5M hectaresNo change
  10. 20EthiopiaData year 202416.4M hectaresNo change
  11. 21ThailandData year 202415.7M hectaresNo change
  12. 22Iran, Islamic Rep.Data year 202415.7M hectaresNo change
  13. 23TanzaniaData year 202413.7M hectaresNo change
  14. 24South AfricaData year 202412M hectaresNo change
  15. 25GermanyData year 202411.7M hectaresNo change
  16. 26SpainData year 202411.4M hectaresNo change
  17. 27PolandData year 202411.2M hectaresNo change
  18. 28MyanmarData year 202411M hectaresNo change
  19. 29UgandaData year 20248.8M hectaresNo change
  20. 30RomaniaData year 20248.4M hectaresNo change
  21. 31MozambiqueData year 20248.3M hectaresNo change
  22. 32Burkina FasoData year 20247.9M hectaresNo change
  23. 33BangladeshData year 20247.9M hectaresNo change
  24. 34AfghanistanData year 20247.8M hectaresNo change
  25. 35AlgeriaData year 20247.5M hectaresNo change
  26. 36MoroccoData year 20247.1M hectaresNo change
  27. 37ItalyData year 20246.9M hectaresNo change
  28. 38Viet NamData year 20246.7M hectaresNo change
  29. 39MaliData year 20246.7M hectaresNo change
  30. 40KenyaData year 20246.7M hectaresNo change
  31. 41CameroonData year 20246.2M hectaresNo change
  32. 42United KingdomData year 20246.1M hectaresNo change
  33. 43GuineaData year 20246.1M hectaresNo change
  34. 44BoliviaData year 20246.1M hectaresNo change
  35. 45PhilippinesData year 20245.6M hectaresNo change
  36. 46BelarusData year 20245.5M hectaresNo change
  37. 47ChadData year 20245.3M hectaresNo change
  38. 48Cote d'IvoireData year 20245M hectaresNo change
  39. 49IraqData year 20244.9M hectaresNo change
  40. 50GhanaData year 20244.7M hectaresNo change

How this list is ranked

Arable land (hectares) (World Bank indicator AG.LND.ARBL.HA), latest year available for each country, from the last 6 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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