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	30,274.28	1.37	652,230.00	1.85	0.41	12.00	0.20
Albania	1,033.01	-2.39	27,400.00	28.79	3.20	21.89	0.24
Algeria	11,742.45	-0.56	2,381,740.00	0.82	0.39	3.16	0.17
American Samoa	8.80	0.51	200.00	85.50	9.65	4.85	0.02
Andorra	8.96	0.89	470.00	34.04	0.02	1.59	0.01
Angola	11,028.82	0.60	1,246,700.00	52.98	0.25	4.29	0.15
Antigua and Barbuda	70.08	0.62	440.00	18.30	2.27	9.09	0.04
Argentina	3,581.40	-0.84	2,736,690.00	10.40	0.39	15.43	0.93
Armenia	1,022.52	-0.36	28,197.09	11.64	2.14	15.73	0.15
Aruba	40.91	-0.24	180.00	2.33	..	11.11	0.02
Australia	3,295.45	0.51	7,692,020.00	17.42	0.05	4.06	1.22
Austria	2,803.15	0.23	82,520.00	47.17	0.82	16.03	0.15
Azerbaijan	4,215.09	-0.13	82,650.00	13.83	3.32	25.28	0.21
Bahamas, The	74.26	1.14	10,010.00	50.94	0.30	0.80	0.02
Bahrain	0.00	..	790.00	0.91	2.53	2.66	0.00
Bangladesh	115,734.37	0.62	130,170.00	14.47	7.25	60.49	0.05
Barbados	114.75	-0.02	430.00	14.65	2.33	16.28	0.02
Belarus	1,986.50	-2.38	202,950.00	43.27	0.47	27.71	0.60
Belgium	1,461.29	0.34	30,494.00	22.60	0.78	28.39	0.07
Belize	233.03	2.29	22,810.00	55.50	1.40	4.38	0.25
Benin	6,747.29	1.00	112,760.00	27.36	5.20	30.92	0.26
Bermuda	0.00	..	54.00	18.52	..	5.56	0.00
Bhutan	461.24	-0.36	38,140.00	71.50	0.26	2.54	0.13
Bolivia	3,546.43	0.18	1,083,300.00	46.73	0.23	4.99	0.45
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,569.66	-2.32	51,200.00	42.73	2.11	19.69	0.31
Botswana	815.19	1.38	566,730.00	26.71	0.00	0.46	0.11
Brazil	26,604.70	-1.31	8,358,140.00	59.27	0.93	6.66	0.27
British Virgin Islands	17.32	-0.46	150.00	24.13	6.67	6.67	0.03
Brunei Darussalam	114.86	0.76	5,270.00	72.11	1.14	0.76	0.01
Bulgaria	1,714.55	-1.15	108,560.00	35.98	1.37	32.24	0.54
Burkina Faso	16,368.77	1.67	273,600.00	22.54	2.30	28.44	0.35
Burundi	10,347.80	1.16	25,680.00	10.89	13.63	49.45	0.10
Cabo Verde	129.76	-2.84	4,030.00	11.42	0.99	12.41	0.10
Cambodia	10,256.59	0.89	176,520.00	44.83	2.86	23.34	0.24
Cameroon	12,477.34	1.99	472,710.00	42.91	3.50	13.12	0.23
Canada	6,872.16	0.83	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	2,891.85	-1.01	622,980.00	35.75	1.32	2.89	0.35
Chad	13,700.57	2.74	1,259,200.00	3.34	0.03	4.21	0.30
Channel Islands	112.38	0.32	198.00	5.15	..	..	..
Chile	2,221.32	-1.02	742,831.64	24.68	0.72	2.02	0.08
China	491,187.85	-1.43	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	11,358.31	0.10	1,109,500.00	53.13	2.16	2.16	0.05
Comoros	560.79	1.40	1,861.00	17.45	28.48	34.93	0.08
Congo, Dem. Rep.	57,338.94	2.56	2,267,050.00	55.16	0.87	6.05	0.14
Congo, Rep.	2,194.23	2.33	341,500.00	64.22	0.36	1.61	0.09
Costa Rica	1,095.60	-1.65	51,060.00	59.76	7.39	3.27	0.03
Cote d'Ivoire	14,331.47	1.40	318,000.00	8.57	26.41	13.80	0.15
Croatia	1,658.01	-1.14	55,960.00	34.70	1.41	15.31	0.22
Cuba	2,532.08	-0.59	103,800.00	31.23	6.29	28.02	0.26
Curacao	13.18	-0.51	444.00	0.16	..	..	..
Cyprus	443.75	1.07	9,240.00	18.67	2.80	10.12	0.07
Czechia	2,913.83	1.51	77,186.83	34.71	0.63	32.07	0.24
Denmark	685.46	-0.29	40,000.00	15.73	0.68	58.93	0.40
Djibouti	311.44	0.23	23,180.00	0.25	0.03	0.13	0.00
Dominica	18.26	-2.09	750.00	63.83	22.67	8.00	0.09
Dominican Republic	3,097.40	2.80	48,198.02	44.65	9.89	18.74	0.08
Ecuador	6,578.77	0.79	248,360.00	50.06	5.73	4.12	0.06
Egypt, Arab Rep.	64,606.26	1.37	995,450.00	0.05	0.96	3.09	0.03
El Salvador	1,623.68	-1.38	20,720.00	27.96	7.72	34.80	0.12
Equatorial Guinea	524.99	1.67	28,050.00	86.99	1.68	1.89	0.03
Eritrea	2,221.36	1.97	121,178.20	8.68	0.02	5.69	0.21
Estonia	398.05	0.29	42,750.00	57.04	0.12	16.37	0.53
Eswatini	909.35	0.51	17,200.00	29.00	1.05	10.29	0.15
Ethiopia	96,875.95	1.81	1,128,505.60	15.06	2.07	14.56	0.13
Faroe Islands	32.89	0.84	1,370.00	0.06	..	0.05	0.00
Fiji	384.91	-0.83	18,270.00	62.76	3.38	4.20	0.08
Finland	1,461.44	-0.96	303,947.70	73.73	0.01	7.38	0.40
France	14,482.93	0.40	538,950.00	32.17	1.91	31.56	0.25
French Polynesia	107.41	0.34	3,471.00	43.06	7.49	0.72	0.01
Gabon	213.31	-2.60	257,670.00	91.27	0.66	1.26	0.14
Gambia, The	967.93	0.88	10,120.00	23.41	0.69	43.48	0.17
Georgia	1,484.62	-1.34	69,490.00	40.62	1.84	4.49	0.08
Germany	15,149.35	-0.87	349,390.00	32.68	0.58	33.37	0.14
Ghana	14,171.06	0.63	227,533.00	35.13	11.90	20.70	0.14
Gibraltar	0.00	..	10.00	0.00	..	..	..
Greece	2,238.69	-2.01	128,900.00	30.27	7.99	14.06	0.17
Greenland	6.91	-2.09	410,450.00	0.00	..	..	..
Grenada	74.39	0.06	340.00	52.06	11.76	8.82	0.03
Guam	9.73	0.57	540.00	51.85	12.96	1.85	0.01
Guatemala	7,985.48	0.62	107,160.00	32.81	11.04	14.50	0.09
Guinea	8,821.22	1.87	245,720.00	25.02	5.65	21.35	0.38
Guinea-Bissau	1,154.62	1.46	28,120.00	70.11	8.89	14.02	0.19
Guyana	604.28	0.74	211,140.00	87.18	0.14	0.46	0.12
Haiti	5,308.63	-0.18	27,560.00	12.49	10.89	36.47	0.09
Honduras	4,411.94	0.54	111,890.00	56.65	5.36	9.10	0.10
Hungary	2,866.30	-0.11	91,260.00	22.48	1.64	45.36	0.43
Iceland	22.24	3.07	100,830.00	0.52	..	1.20	0.32
India	930,009.29	0.31	2,973,190.00	24.36	4.70	51.85	0.11
Indonesia	118,521.18	-0.70	1,892,555.47	48.36	13.74	9.40	0.06
Iran, Islamic Rep.	21,186.61	-0.23	1,622,500.00	6.64	1.17	9.68	0.18
Iraq	13,279.21	2.29	434,130.00	1.90	1.22	11.45	0.12
Ireland	1,882.25	1.39	68,890.00	11.41	0.01	6.33	0.09
Isle of Man	40.22	0.04	570.00	6.07	..	40.70	0.28
Israel	812.58	2.41	21,640.00	6.47	4.74	12.59	0.03
Italy	18,008.62	-0.21	295,717.00	32.53	7.33	24.32	0.12
Jamaica	1,192.78	-1.01	10,830.00	55.47	6.28	11.08	0.04
Japan	10,037.96	-1.73	364,500.00	68.41	0.72	11.21	0.03
Jordan	854.93	-2.01	88,794.00	1.10	0.92	2.24	0.02
Kazakhstan	7,724.51	0.40	2,699,700.00	1.29	0.05	10.99	1.50
Kenya	37,200.49	1.71	580,876.30	6.22	1.32	11.42	0.12
Kiribati	51.44	-0.73	810.00	1.46	39.51	2.47	0.02
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	9,681.79	-0.45	120,410.00	49.90	2.08	19.06	0.09
Korea, Rep.	9,733.82	-0.19	97,600.00	64.31	2.09	13.76	0.03
Kosovo	922.94	-3.47	..	..	..	..	..
Kuwait	0.00	..	17,820.00	0.35	0.34	0.45	0.00
Kyrgyz Republic	4,554.80	1.87	191,800.00	6.95	0.40	6.71	0.19
Lao PDR	4,681.43	0.24	230,800.00	71.75	1.34	5.30	0.16
Latvia	596.57	-0.51	62,230.00	54.87	0.14	21.89	0.72
Lebanon	562.60	-1.97	10,230.00	14.07	13.69	13.84	0.02
Lesotho	1,333.48	-0.65	30,360.00	1.14	0.13	7.42	0.10
Liberia	2,447.05	0.97	96,320.00	78.77	2.08	5.19	0.10
Libya	877.79	1.13	1,759,540.00	0.12	0.19	0.98	0.24
Liechtenstein	33.69	0.80	160.00	41.88	..	10.81	0.04
Lithuania	898.01	0.52	62,610.00	35.18	0.58	36.40	0.81
Luxembourg	34.22	-1.26	2,574.46	34.45	0.61	24.27	0.10
Madagascar	20,837.42	1.86	581,800.00	21.34	1.03	5.16	0.10
Malawi	17,130.75	2.30	94,280.00	23.33	2.12	42.43	0.20
Malaysia	8,335.89	-0.72	328,550.00	58.02	22.71	2.51	0.02
Maldives	308.89	0.98	300.00	2.73	3.33	13.00	0.01
Mali	16,058.20	2.01	1,220,190.00	10.90	0.21	6.84	0.37
Malta	23.37	0.54	320.00	1.44	2.97	24.38	0.02
Marshall Islands	8.82	-4.82	180.00	52.22	36.11	2.78	0.01
Mauritania	2,008.17	0.74	1,030,700.00	0.30	0.01	0.44	0.10
Mauritius	770.14	-0.17	1,997.00	19.43	2.05	37.56	0.06
Mexico	26,751.94	-0.52	1,943,950.00	33.73	2.19	11.15	0.17
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	86.99	0.41	700.00	92.07	..	2.86	0.02
Moldova	1,456.38	-3.65	32,890.00	11.75	8.39	56.46	0.72
Monaco	0.00	..	2.08	0.00	..	..	..
Mongolia	1,037.55	-0.40	1,557,507.00	9.10	0.00	0.72	0.33
Montenegro	215.75	-0.45	13,450.00	61.49	0.41	0.66	0.01
Morocco	13,993.98	0.49	446,300.00	12.89	4.00	15.98	0.19
Mozambique	21,209.04	2.02	786,380.00	46.41	0.49	7.18	0.18
Myanmar	37,462.52	0.58	652,670.00	43.29	2.31	16.84	0.21
Namibia	1,458.44	1.85	823,290.00	7.98	0.01	0.97	0.28
Nauru	0.00	..	20.00	0.00	20.00	..	..
Nepal	10,014.31	0.35	143,350.00	41.59	0.99	12.81	0.06
Netherlands	887.60	-5.91	33,670.00	11.00	1.10	29.79	0.06
New Caledonia	93.11	0.18	18,280.00	45.84	0.20	0.33	0.02
New Zealand	820.45	-0.21	263,310.00	37.63	0.28	2.34	0.12
Nicaragua	2,759.88	0.95	120,340.00	27.48	2.46	12.49	0.23
Niger	20,888.15	2.95	1,266,700.00	0.84	0.09	13.97	0.72
Nigeria	86,197.02	0.04	910,770.00	23.57	7.54	40.48	0.17
North Macedonia	696.91	-1.00	25,220.00	39.71	1.63	16.53	0.23
Northern Mariana Islands	3.74	-3.10	460.00	52.96	0.20	0.17	0.00
Norway	930.09	0.34	364,270.00	33.46	0.01	2.21	0.15
Oman	945.49	5.54	309,500.00	0.01	0.11	0.24	0.02
Pakistan	150,182.87	1.04	770,880.00	4.78	0.95	39.28	0.13
Palau	3.71	-0.27	460.00	90.20	4.35	0.65	0.02
Panama	1,504.13	1.23	74,180.00	56.65	1.45	7.62	0.13
Papua New Guinea	8,699.64	1.54	452,860.00	79.10	1.95	0.73	0.03
Paraguay	2,120.11	-3.03	397,300.00	39.83	0.23	11.16	0.66
Peru	5,233.43	-1.68	1,280,000.00	56.37	1.89	3.35	0.13
Philippines	51,523.01	0.01	298,170.00	24.23	18.76	18.75	0.05
Poland	14,790.73	-0.49	306,100.00	31.02	1.24	36.19	0.30
Portugal	4,056.25	0.62	91,605.60	36.15	9.46	10.56	0.09
Puerto Rico (US)	189.63	-2.26	8,870.00	56.01	1.80	5.66	0.02
Qatar	20.09	0.68	11,490.00	0.00	0.26	1.83	0.01
Romania	9,112.14	-0.24	230,080.00	30.12	1.74	37.33	0.45
Russian Federation	36,269.11	-0.76	16,376,870.00	49.78	0.12	7.43	0.84
Rwanda	9,858.68	-0.10	24,670.00	11.23	14.19	51.41	0.09
Samoa	177.59	0.77	2,780.00	57.98	11.41	4.06	0.05
San Marino	0.97	-1.83	60.00	16.67	5.25	33.08	0.06
Sao Tome and Principe	71.58	1.31	960.00	53.42	39.58	4.17	0.02
Saudi Arabia	5,104.62	3.39	2,149,690.00	0.45	0.10	1.60	0.11
Senegal	8,217.74	-0.11	192,530.00	41.70	0.42	19.89	0.22
Serbia	2,539.06	-3.92	84,090.00	32.38	2.43	31.10	0.38
Seychelles	66.04	..	460.00	73.26	3.04	0.33	0.00
Sierra Leone	4,612.94	1.28	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	2,542.59	-0.29	48,080.00	40.06	0.37	27.58	0.24
Slovenia	943.30	0.12	20,136.40	61.37	2.70	8.89	0.08
Solomon Islands	551.81	1.46	27,990.00	90.11	2.78	0.82	0.03
Somalia, Fed. Rep.	8,277.70	1.75	627,340.00	9.41	0.04	1.75	0.06
South Africa	22,782.67	1.34	1,213,090.00	14.03	0.34	9.89	0.20
South Sudan	8,731.50	1.05	631,930.00	11.33	0.13	3.79	0.22
Spain	9,578.78	-0.13	499,733.24	37.17	10.12	23.11	0.24
Sri Lanka	17,747.51	-0.09	61,860.00	34.11	16.17	22.18	0.06
St. Kitts and Nevis	31.94	-0.23	260.00	42.31	0.38	19.23	0.11
St. Lucia	126.76	-2.16	610.00	34.05	11.31	4.38	0.01
St. Martin (French part)	0.00	..	50.00	24.80	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	53.49	-1.02	390.00	73.18	7.69	5.13	0.02
Sudan	32,236.96	2.58	1,868,000.00	9.74	0.12	11.24	0.44
Suriname	212.51	1.10	160,507.61	94.60	0.02	0.36	0.09
Sweden	1,216.08	-1.28	407,280.00	68.70	0.01	6.22	0.24
Switzerland	1,323.53	-3.83	39,509.63	32.21	0.64	10.01	0.05
Syrian Arab Republic	6,151.83	5.25	183,630.00	2.84	5.74	24.67	0.21
Tajikistan	7,514.92	2.14	138,790.00	3.06	1.47	6.04	0.08
Tanzania	42,176.92	2.23	885,800.00	51.11	2.28	15.24	0.21
Thailand	28,878.94	-3.01	510,890.00	38.83	11.15	31.69	0.23
Timor-Leste	977.87	1.70	14,870.00	61.85	5.37	7.50	0.08
Togo	5,205.40	1.62	54,390.00	22.18	3.13	48.72	0.30
Tonga	82.83	-0.28	720.00	12.43	15.28	27.78	0.19
Trinidad and Tobago	628.99	-0.14	5,130.00	44.40	4.29	4.87	0.02
Tunisia	3,671.29	-0.42	155,360.00	4.53	13.64	18.22	0.23
Turkiye	9,315.40	2.25	769,630.00	29.07	4.67	25.83	0.24
Turkmenistan	3,827.72	1.93	469,930.00	8.78	0.08	3.40	0.22
Turks and Caicos Islands	2.89	-2.49	950.00	11.07	..	1.05	0.02
Tuvalu	3.67	-3.91	30.00	33.33	60.00	..	..
Uganda	33,154.30	2.03	200,520.00	11.45	10.97	34.41	0.15
Ukraine	12,551.29	-7.69	579,400.00	16.73	1.47	56.82	0.74
United Arab Emirates	1,459.39	4.01	71,020.00	4.47	0.58	0.71	0.01
United Kingdom	11,441.71	0.41	241,930.00	13.22	0.19	24.84	0.09
United States	66,694.92	0.45	9,147,420.00	33.87	0.35	16.69	0.46
Uruguay	152.67	-1.23	175,020.00	11.72	0.22	11.60	0.60
Uzbekistan	17,125.42	1.89	440,653.00	8.43	0.96	9.11	0.12
Vanuatu	243.38	2.31	12,190.00	36.28	10.25	1.64	0.07
Venezuela, RB	3,043.28	-0.43	882,050.00	52.35	0.79	2.95	0.09
Viet Nam	62,252.71	-0.67	313,429.00	46.96	15.71	21.67	0.07
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	5.04	-1.61	350.00	57.31	0.57	2.57	0.01
West Bank and Gaza	676.04	0.50	6,025.00	1.68	11.83	6.95	0.01
Yemen, Rep.	24,339.32	2.48	527,970.00	1.04	0.56	2.19	0.03
Zambia	11,164.96	2.11	743,390.00	60.03	0.05	5.11	0.19
Zimbabwe	9,849.44	0.35	386,850.00	44.97	0.12	10.41	0.25
World	3,429,885.38	0.26	129,783,069.28	31.18	1.46	10.71	0.17
East Asia & Pacific	864,209.73	-1.04	24,484,453.47	27.19	3.06	8.77	0.09
Europe & Central Asia	242,803.16	-0.42	27,440,964.95	38.54	0.75	12.33	0.36
Latin America & Caribbean	125,215.64	-0.41	20,043,375.63	46.38	1.18	7.62	0.24
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	351,076.43	1.23	12,640,228.00	2.21	0.91	7.24	0.12
North America	73,567.07	0.49	17,936,174.00	36.61	0.18	10.65	0.52
South Asia	1,074,275.60	0.34	3,347,010.00	25.43	4.69	49.48	0.10
Sub-Saharan Africa	698,737.75	1.60	23,890,863.23	26.08	1.62	9.87	0.20
Low income	376,087.12	2.02	13,616,730.83	20.57	0.79	9.08	0.21
Lower middle income	1,801,755.30	0.53	18,696,045.00	29.54	3.45	18.87	0.12
Upper middle income	871,190.13	-1.13	43,656,074.10	29.23	2.06	9.70	0.15
High income	280,933.61	-0.03	51,803,597.95	36.19	0.38	9.07	0.33

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