Common menu bar links

Page content follows

Table 1.2
Global availability of agricultural and arable land, 2005

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

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).

Common menu bar links

Table 1.2Global availability of agricultural and arable land, 2005

Table 1.2
Global availability of agricultural and arable land, 2005