World Development Indicators

3.1 Rural environment and land use
Rural population	Rural population growth (annual %)	Land area (sq. km)	Forest area (% of land area)	Permanent cropland (% of land area)	Arable land (% of land area)	Arable land (hectares per person)


2022	2022	2021	2021	2021	2021	2021

Afghanistan	29,778.38	1.03	652,230.00	1.85	0.41	12.00	0.20
Albania	1,005.55	-3.48	27,400.00	28.79	3.20	21.89	0.21
Algeria	11,473.04	-0.42	2,381,740.00	0.82	0.39	3.16	0.17
American Samoa	6.19	-2.02	200.00	85.50	9.65	4.85	0.02
Andorra	9.72	2.08	470.00	34.04	0.02	1.59	0.01
Angola	11,374.35	1.22	1,246,700.00	52.98	0.25	4.29	0.15
Antigua and Barbuda	70.24	0.58	440.00	18.30	2.27	9.09	0.04
Argentina	3,475.07	-1.32	2,736,690.00	10.40	0.39	15.43	0.93
Armenia	1,081.59	-0.16	28,197.09	11.64	2.14	15.73	0.15
Aruba	60.04	-0.69	180.00	2.33	..	11.11	0.02
Australia	3,515.07	0.34	7,692,020.00	17.42	0.05	4.06	1.22
Austria	3,684.01	0.32	82,520.00	47.17	0.82	16.03	0.15
Azerbaijan	4,343.71	-0.88	82,650.00	13.83	3.32	25.28	0.21
Bahamas, The	65.63	-0.47	10,010.00	50.94	0.30	0.80	0.02
Bahrain	156.39	0.17	790.00	0.91	2.53	2.66	0.00
Bangladesh	102,120.46	-0.24	130,170.00	14.47	7.25	60.49	0.05
Barbados	193.89	-0.05	430.00	14.65	2.33	16.28	0.02
Belarus	1,815.53	-2.90	202,950.00	43.27	0.47	27.71	0.60
Belgium	215.73	-1.12	30,494.00	22.60	0.78	28.39	0.07
Belize	215.88	1.49	22,810.00	55.50	1.40	4.38	0.25
Benin	6,943.87	1.44	112,760.00	27.36	5.20	30.92	0.26
Bermuda	0.00	..	54.00	18.52	..	5.56	0.00
Bhutan	439.76	-0.49	38,140.00	71.50	0.26	2.54	0.13
Bolivia	3,522.91	-0.05	1,083,300.00	46.73	0.23	4.99	0.45
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,607.50	-2.07	51,200.00	42.73	2.11	19.69	0.31
Botswana	677.70	-0.77	566,730.00	26.71	0.00	0.46	0.11
Brazil	26,172.63	-1.53	8,358,140.00	59.27	0.93	6.66	0.27
British Virgin Islands	19.42	0.53	150.00	24.13	6.67	6.67	0.03
Brunei Darussalam	96.29	-0.60	5,270.00	72.11	1.14	0.76	0.01
Bulgaria	1,528.16	-2.07	108,560.00	35.98	1.37	32.24	0.54
Burkina Faso	15,333.83	1.38	273,600.00	22.54	2.30	28.44	0.35
Burundi	11,400.59	2.29	25,680.00	10.89	13.63	49.45	0.10
Cabo Verde	168.68	-0.76	4,030.00	11.42	0.99	12.41	0.10
Cambodia	12,881.68	0.74	176,520.00	44.83	2.86	23.34	0.24
Cameroon	11,403.22	1.22	472,710.00	42.91	3.50	13.12	0.23
Canada	7,105.03	1.26	8,788,700.00	39.47	0.02	4.35	1.00
Cayman Islands	0.00	..	240.00	52.75	2.08	0.83	0.00
Central African Republic	2,899.77	-1.10	622,980.00	35.75	1.32	2.89	0.35
Chad	14,014.41	3.09	1,259,200.00	3.34	0.03	4.21	0.30
Channel Islands	115.25	0.19	198.00	5.15	..	..	..
Chile	2,363.57	-0.29	742,831.64	24.68	0.72	2.02	0.08
China	514,596.57	-2.85	9,388,210.00	23.63	1.98	11.61	0.08
Hong Kong SAR, China	0.00	..	1,050.00	..	0.95	1.90	0.00
Macao SAR, China	0.00	..	33.00	..	..	..	..
Colombia	9,286.96	-0.64	1,109,500.00	53.13	2.16	2.16	0.05
Comoros	585.07	1.58	1,861.00	17.45	28.48	34.93	0.08
Congo, Dem. Rep.	54,437.30	2.10	2,267,050.00	55.16	0.87	6.05	0.14
Congo, Rep.	1,886.82	0.96	341,500.00	64.22	0.36	1.61	0.09
Costa Rica	912.58	-2.95	51,060.00	59.76	7.39	3.27	0.03
Cote d'Ivoire	14,388.69	1.51	318,000.00	8.57	26.41	13.80	0.15
Croatia	1,610.93	-1.42	55,960.00	34.70	1.41	15.31	0.22
Cuba	2,499.41	-1.04	103,800.00	31.23	6.29	28.02	0.26
Curacao	16.46	-1.45	444.00	0.16	..	..	..
Cyprus	440.54	0.90	9,240.00	18.67	2.80	10.12	0.07
Czechia	2,734.52	0.94	77,186.83	34.71	0.63	32.07	0.24
Denmark	686.70	-0.30	40,000.00	15.73	0.68	58.93	0.40
Djibouti	245.84	0.65	23,180.00	0.25	0.03	0.13	0.00
Dominica	18.91	-1.63	750.00	63.83	22.67	8.00	0.09
Dominican Republic	1,813.99	-2.90	48,198.02	44.65	9.89	18.74	0.08
Ecuador	6,315.01	0.21	248,360.00	50.06	5.73	4.12	0.06
Egypt, Arab Rep.	64,229.57	1.30	995,450.00	0.05	0.96	3.09	0.03
El Salvador	1,584.71	-2.15	20,720.00	27.96	7.72	34.80	0.12
Equatorial Guinea	468.74	0.80	28,050.00	86.99	1.68	1.89	0.03
Eritrea	1,956.17	0.64	121,178.20	8.68	0.02	5.69	0.21
Estonia	409.93	0.70	42,750.00	57.04	0.12	16.37	0.53
Eswatini	919.36	0.74	17,200.00	29.00	1.05	10.29	0.15
Ethiopia	96,970.95	1.99	1,128,505.60	15.06	2.07	14.56	0.13
Faroe Islands	30.86	0.82	1,370.00	0.06	..	0.05	0.00
Fiji	384.05	-0.87	18,270.00	62.76	3.38	4.20	0.08
Finland	795.58	-0.32	303,947.70	73.73	0.01	7.38	0.40
France	12,585.90	-1.11	538,950.00	32.17	1.91	31.56	0.25
French Polynesia	106.07	-0.07	3,471.00	43.06	7.49	0.72	0.01
Gabon	225.21	-1.06	257,670.00	91.27	0.66	1.26	0.14
Gambia, The	953.03	0.59	10,120.00	23.41	0.69	43.48	0.17
Georgia	1,473.98	-0.96	69,490.00	40.62	1.84	4.49	0.08
Germany	18,730.53	0.26	349,390.00	32.68	0.58	33.37	0.14
Ghana	13,718.78	0.41	227,533.00	35.13	11.90	20.70	0.14
Gibraltar	0.00	..	10.00	0.00	..	..	..
Greece	2,050.12	-2.87	128,900.00	30.27	7.99	14.06	0.17
Greenland	6.95	-1.77	410,450.00	0.00	..	..	..
Grenada	73.81	-0.08	340.00	52.06	11.76	8.82	0.03
Guam	8.11	-0.65	540.00	51.85	12.96	1.85	0.01
Guatemala	8,448.11	0.52	107,160.00	32.81	11.04	14.50	0.09
Guinea	8,760.85	1.84	245,720.00	25.02	5.65	21.35	0.38
Guinea-Bissau	1,157.18	1.47	28,120.00	70.11	8.89	14.02	0.19
Guyana	599.61	0.58	211,140.00	87.18	0.14	0.46	0.12
Haiti	4,737.19	-0.93	27,560.00	12.49	10.89	36.47	0.09
Honduras	4,227.40	0.16	111,890.00	56.65	5.36	9.10	0.10
Hungary	2,636.40	-1.38	91,260.00	22.48	1.64	45.36	0.43
Iceland	22.95	1.72	100,830.00	0.52	..	1.20	0.32
India	914,095.40	0.05	2,973,190.00	24.36	4.70	51.85	0.11
Indonesia	117,292.85	-0.77	1,892,555.47	48.36	13.74	9.40	0.06
Iran, Islamic Rep.	20,763.36	-0.77	1,622,500.00	6.64	1.17	9.68	0.18
Iraq	12,624.45	1.48	434,130.00	1.90	1.22	11.45	0.12
Ireland	1,867.08	1.23	68,890.00	11.41	0.01	6.33	0.09
Isle of Man	39.31	-0.39	570.00	6.07	..	40.70	0.28
Israel	691.68	0.74	21,640.00	6.47	4.74	12.59	0.03
Italy	16,726.24	-1.29	295,717.00	32.53	7.33	24.32	0.12
Jamaica	1,220.61	-0.77	10,830.00	55.47	6.28	11.08	0.04
Japan	10,066.31	-1.53	364,500.00	68.41	0.72	11.21	0.03
Jordan	919.97	-0.73	88,794.00	1.10	0.92	2.24	0.02
Kazakhstan	8,416.54	1.06	2,699,700.00	1.29	0.05	10.99	1.50
Kenya	38,518.16	1.21	580,876.30	6.22	1.32	11.42	0.12
Kiribati	56.03	-0.05	810.00	1.46	39.51	2.47	0.02
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	9,763.79	-0.37	120,410.00	49.90	2.08	19.06	0.09
Korea, Rep.	9,597.15	-0.26	97,600.00	64.31	2.09	13.76	0.03
Kosovo	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Kuwait	0.00	..	17,820.00	0.35	0.34	0.45	0.00
Kyrgyz Republic	4,362.23	1.29	191,800.00	6.95	0.40	6.71	0.19
Lao PDR	4,717.43	0.37	230,800.00	71.75	1.34	5.30	0.16
Latvia	591.25	-0.65	62,230.00	54.87	0.14	21.89	0.72
Lebanon	616.84	-1.10	10,230.00	14.07	13.69	13.84	0.02
Lesotho	1,601.58	0.42	30,360.00	1.14	0.13	7.42	0.10
Liberia	2,521.96	1.10	96,320.00	78.77	2.08	5.19	0.10
Libya	1,350.71	-0.40	1,759,540.00	0.12	0.19	0.98	0.24
Liechtenstein	33.75	0.71	160.00	41.88	..	10.81	0.04
Lithuania	892.96	0.14	62,610.00	35.18	0.58	36.40	0.81
Luxembourg	53.03	-0.53	2,574.46	34.45	0.61	24.27	0.10
Madagascar	18,298.27	1.37	581,800.00	21.34	1.03	5.16	0.10
Malawi	16,870.47	2.22	94,280.00	23.33	2.12	42.43	0.20
Malaysia	7,558.76	-1.15	328,550.00	58.02	22.71	2.51	0.02
Maldives	306.41	0.79	300.00	2.73	3.33	13.00	0.01
Mali	12,589.13	1.63	1,220,190.00	10.90	0.21	6.84	0.37
Malta	27.22	1.21	320.00	1.44	2.97	24.38	0.02
Marshall Islands	8.61	-4.82	180.00	52.22	36.11	2.78	0.01
Mauritania	2,100.28	1.11	1,030,700.00	0.30	0.01	0.44	0.10
Mauritius	747.29	-0.36	1,997.00	19.43	2.05	37.56	0.06
Mexico	24,050.65	-0.75	1,943,950.00	33.73	2.19	11.15	0.17
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	86.08	0.24	700.00	92.07	..	2.86	0.02
Moldova	1,436.96	-2.93	32,890.00	11.75	8.39	56.46	0.72
Monaco	0.00	..	2.08	0.00	..	..	..
Mongolia	1,066.87	1.00	1,557,507.00	9.10	0.00	0.72	0.33
Montenegro	198.53	-1.29	13,450.00	61.49	0.41	0.66	0.01
Morocco	13,215.98	-0.48	446,300.00	12.89	4.00	15.98	0.19
Mozambique	20,185.81	2.05	786,380.00	46.41	0.49	7.18	0.18
Myanmar	36,677.72	0.22	652,670.00	43.29	2.31	16.84	0.21
Namibia	1,330.52	0.73	823,290.00	7.98	0.01	0.97	0.28
Nauru	0.00	..	20.00	0.00	20.00	..	..
Nepal	23,341.18	0.25	143,350.00	41.59	0.99	12.81	0.06
Netherlands	1,259.25	-3.37	33,670.00	11.00	1.10	29.79	0.06
New Caledonia	79.46	-0.77	18,280.00	45.84	0.20	0.33	0.02
New Zealand	671.16	-0.61	263,310.00	37.63	0.28	2.34	0.12
Nicaragua	2,722.15	0.60	120,340.00	27.48	2.46	12.49	0.23
Niger	21,035.77	3.08	1,266,700.00	0.84	0.09	13.97	0.72
Nigeria	103,718.31	0.44	910,770.00	23.57	7.54	40.48	0.17
North Macedonia	748.84	-1.10	25,220.00	39.71	1.63	16.53	0.23
Northern Mariana Islands	3.69	-3.09	460.00	52.96	0.20	0.17	0.00
Norway	891.48	-1.17	364,270.00	33.46	0.01	2.21	0.15
Oman	579.45	-0.62	309,500.00	0.01	0.11	0.24	0.02
Pakistan	151,749.97	1.28	770,880.00	4.78	0.95	39.28	0.13
Palau	3.20	-2.74	460.00	90.20	4.35	0.65	0.02
Panama	1,358.04	0.09	74,180.00	56.65	1.45	7.62	0.13
Papua New Guinea	8,817.38	1.74	452,860.00	79.10	1.95	0.73	0.03
Paraguay	2,513.68	0.27	397,300.00	39.83	0.23	11.16	0.66
Peru	7,127.59	-0.01	1,280,000.00	56.37	1.89	3.35	0.13
Philippines	59,287.67	0.20	298,170.00	24.23	18.76	18.75	0.05
Poland	14,679.36	-0.58	306,100.00	31.02	1.24	36.19	0.30
Portugal	3,403.58	-0.92	91,605.60	36.15	9.46	10.56	0.09
Puerto Rico (US)	205.77	-1.59	8,870.00	56.01	1.80	5.66	0.02
Qatar	18.12	0.21	11,490.00	0.00	0.26	1.83	0.01
Romania	8,669.16	-0.74	230,080.00	30.12	1.74	37.33	0.45
Russian Federation	35,877.50	-1.12	16,376,870.00	49.78	0.12	7.43	0.84
Rwanda	11,231.93	2.00	24,670.00	11.23	14.19	51.41	0.09
Samoa	177.34	0.84	2,780.00	57.98	11.41	4.06	0.05
San Marino	0.77	-6.20	60.00	16.67	5.25	33.08	0.06
Sao Tome and Principe	54.87	-0.83	960.00	53.42	39.58	4.17	0.02
Saudi Arabia	4,913.48	2.98	2,149,690.00	0.45	0.10	1.60	0.11
Senegal	8,986.88	1.52	192,530.00	41.70	0.42	19.89	0.22
Serbia	2,874.18	-3.03	84,090.00	32.38	2.43	31.10	0.38
Seychelles	49.87	..	460.00	73.26	3.04	0.33	0.00
Sierra Leone	4,649.00	1.41	72,180.00	34.85	2.29	21.95	0.20
Singapore	0.00	..	718.00	21.43	0.14	0.78	0.00
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0.00	..	34.00	10.88	..	..	..
Slovak Republic	2,503.55	-0.48	48,080.00	40.06	0.37	27.58	0.24
Slovenia	934.57	-0.54	20,136.40	61.37	2.70	8.89	0.08
Solomon Islands	581.24	1.78	27,990.00	90.11	2.78	0.82	0.03
Somalia, Fed. Rep.	9,377.33	1.91	627,340.00	9.41	0.04	1.75	0.06
South Africa	19,752.12	-0.12	1,213,090.00	14.03	0.34	9.89	0.20
South Sudan	8,723.70	1.00	631,930.00	11.33	0.13	3.79	0.22
Spain	8,934.09	-0.60	499,733.24	37.17	10.12	23.11	0.24
Sri Lanka	17,960.84	-0.09	61,860.00	34.11	16.17	22.18	0.06
St. Kitts and Nevis	32.23	-0.24	260.00	42.31	0.38	19.23	0.11
St. Lucia	144.72	0.01	610.00	34.05	11.31	4.38	0.01
St. Martin (French part)	..	..	50.00	24.80	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.07	-1.69	390.00	73.18	7.69	5.13	0.02
Sudan	31,627.07	2.14	1,868,000.00	9.74	0.12	11.24	0.44
Suriname	209.96	0.59	160,507.61	94.60	0.02	0.36	0.09
Sweden	1,206.84	-1.50	407,280.00	68.70	0.01	6.22	0.24
Switzerland	2,273.97	0.46	39,509.63	32.21	0.64	10.01	0.05
Syrian Arab Republic	9,710.62	2.30	183,630.00	2.84	5.74	24.67	0.21
Tajikistan	7,334.46	1.80	138,790.00	3.06	1.47	6.04	0.08
Tanzania	40,974.23	1.81	885,800.00	51.11	2.28	15.24	0.21
Thailand	33,795.23	-1.52	510,890.00	38.83	11.15	31.69	0.23
Timor-Leste	930.11	0.85	14,870.00	61.85	5.37	7.50	0.08
Togo	5,097.43	1.35	54,390.00	22.18	3.13	48.72	0.30
Tonga	80.75	-0.45	720.00	12.43	15.28	27.78	0.19
Trinidad and Tobago	637.29	-0.29	5,130.00	44.40	4.29	4.87	0.02
Tunisia	3,609.87	-0.50	155,360.00	4.53	13.64	18.22	0.23
Turkiye	19,526.68	-0.97	769,630.00	29.07	4.67	25.83	0.24
Turkmenistan	3,362.47	0.87	469,930.00	8.78	0.08	3.40	0.22
Turks and Caicos Islands	2.73	-2.21	950.00	11.07	..	1.05	0.02
Tuvalu	3.45	-4.12	30.00	33.33	60.00	..	..
Uganda	34,936.19	2.19	200,520.00	11.45	10.97	34.41	0.15
Ukraine	12,347.88	-8.16	579,400.00	16.73	1.47	56.82	0.74
United Arab Emirates	1,255.04	3.15	71,020.00	4.47	0.58	0.71	0.01
United Kingdom	10,547.58	-0.64	241,930.00	13.22	0.19	24.84	0.09
United States	56,502.37	-0.66	9,147,420.00	33.87	0.35	16.69	0.46
Uruguay	146.22	-2.12	175,020.00	11.72	0.22	11.60	0.60
Uzbekistan	17,306.66	1.93	440,653.00	8.43	0.96	9.11	0.12
Vanuatu	232.23	2.12	12,190.00	36.28	10.25	1.64	0.07
Venezuela, RB	3,278.92	-0.54	882,050.00	52.35	0.79	2.95	0.09
Viet Nam	61,038.45	-0.41	313,429.00	46.96	15.71	21.67	0.07
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	4.07	-2.88	350.00	57.31	0.57	2.57	0.01
West Bank and Gaza	1,145.35	1.17	6,025.00	1.68	11.83	6.95	0.01
Yemen, Rep.	23,244.10	1.82	527,970.00	1.04	0.56	2.19	0.03
Zambia	10,930.75	1.72	743,390.00	60.03	0.05	5.11	0.19
Zimbabwe	10,863.49	1.57	386,850.00	44.97	0.12	10.41	0.25
World	3,449,820.98	-0.14	129,783,069.28	31.18	1.46	10.71	0.17
East Asia & Pacific	898,894.71	-1.82	24,484,453.47	27.19	3.06	8.77	0.09
Europe & Central Asia	248,923.35	-0.84	27,440,964.95	38.54	0.75	12.33	0.36
Latin America & Caribbean	120,395.10	-0.69	20,043,375.63	46.38	1.18	7.62	0.24
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	352,319.42	1.08	12,640,228.00	2.21	0.91	7.24	0.12
North America	63,607.40	-0.45	17,936,174.00	36.61	0.18	10.65	0.52
South Asia	1,058,264.06	0.02	3,347,010.00	25.43	4.69	49.48	0.10
Sub-Saharan Africa	707,416.95	1.55	23,890,863.23	26.08	1.62	9.87	0.20
Low income	371,793.21	1.87	13,616,730.83	20.57	0.79	9.08	0.21
Lower middle income	1,812,270.08	0.37	18,696,045.00	29.54	3.45	18.87	0.12
Upper middle income	898,980.90	-2.05	43,656,074.10	29.23	2.06	9.70	0.15
High income	266,526.92	-0.61	51,803,597.95	36.19	0.38	9.07	0.33

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