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	30,181.94	2.12	652,230.00	1.85	0.34	12.00	0.20
Albania	1,004.81	-3.56	27,400.00	28.79	3.20	21.89	0.21
Algeria	11,328.19	-0.38	2,381,741.00	0.82	0.41	3.16	0.17
American Samoa	5.67	-1.90	200.00	85.50	9.65	4.85	0.02
Andorra	9.73	1.39	470.00	34.04	0.02	1.59	0.01
Angola	11,359.65	1.17	1,246,700.00	52.98	0.25	4.31	0.16
Antigua and Barbuda	70.94	0.63	440.00	18.30	2.27	9.09	0.04
Argentina	3,538.35	-0.60	2,736,690.00	10.40	0.39	15.42	0.92
Armenia	1,012.84	-0.77	28,470.00	11.53	2.12	15.57	0.16
Aruba	59.55	-0.42	180.00	2.33	..	11.11	0.02
Australia	3,510.27	0.20	7,692,020.00	17.42	0.05	4.06	1.22
Austria	3,684.29	0.33	82,520.00	47.29	0.82	15.99	0.15
Azerbaijan	4,357.96	-0.55	82,650.00	13.83	3.32	25.28	0.21
Bahamas, The	67.68	-0.26	10,010.00	50.94	0.30	0.80	0.02
Bahrain	151.01	-0.56	790.00	0.91	2.53	2.66	0.00
Bangladesh	103,206.55	-0.19	130,170.00	14.47	10.43	62.30	0.05
Barbados	193.42	0.04	430.00	14.65	2.33	16.28	0.02
Belarus	1,811.72	-3.11	202,950.00	43.27	0.47	27.71	0.60
Belgium	215.54	-1.27	30,280.00	22.76	0.78	28.59	0.07
Belize	217.24	0.94	22,810.00	55.50	1.40	4.38	0.25
Benin	6,738.66	1.59	112,760.00	27.36	5.32	24.83	0.22
Bermuda	0.00	..	54.00	18.52	..	5.56	0.00
Bhutan	440.63	-0.56	38,140.00	71.50	0.16	2.46	0.12
Bolivia	3,565.77	-0.02	1,083,300.00	46.73	0.23	4.49	0.40
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,621.90	-1.98	51,200.00	42.73	2.11	19.69	0.31
Botswana	730.59	-0.76	566,730.00	26.71	0.00	0.46	0.10
Brazil	26,795.77	-1.43	8,358,140.00	59.27	0.93	6.97	0.27
British Virgin Islands	15.86	-0.22	150.00	24.13	6.67	6.67	0.03
Brunei Darussalam	94.95	-0.60	5,270.00	72.11	1.14	0.76	0.01
Bulgaria	1,528.16	-7.61	108,560.00	35.98	1.37	32.24	0.51
Burkina Faso	15,446.05	1.63	273,600.00	22.54	2.34	22.30	0.28
Burundi	11,031.29	2.24	25,680.00	10.89	13.63	49.45	0.10
Cabo Verde	192.51	-0.47	4,030.00	11.42	0.99	12.41	0.09
Cambodia	12,556.77	0.48	176,520.00	44.83	2.71	23.34	0.25
Cameroon	11,519.49	1.19	472,710.00	42.91	3.28	13.12	0.23
Canada	7,103.93	1.28	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	3,173.42	1.38	622,980.00	35.75	0.19	2.89	0.33
Chad	13,458.55	2.74	1,259,200.00	3.34	0.03	4.21	0.31
Channel Islands	119.98	0.71	198.00	5.15	..	18.33	0.02
Chile	2,369.70	-0.22	743,532.00	24.66	0.67	1.77	0.07
China	514,596.57	-2.85	9,388,210.00	23.63	2.02	11.60	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	9,311.39	-1.02	1,109,500.00	53.13	2.26	1.80	0.04
Comoros	586.88	1.47	1,861.00	17.45	28.48	34.93	0.08
Congo, Dem. Rep.	52,636.80	2.07	2,267,050.00	55.16	0.89	6.03	0.14
Congo, Rep.	1,866.59	0.84	341,500.00	64.22	0.37	1.61	0.09
Costa Rica	930.37	-2.86	51,060.00	59.76	7.21	4.76	0.05
Cote d'Ivoire	13,330.92	1.44	318,000.00	8.57	21.38	11.01	0.13
Croatia	1,610.24	-1.46	55,960.00	34.70	1.41	15.31	0.22
Cuba	2,533.84	-0.87	103,800.00	31.23	6.29	28.02	0.26
Curacao	16.46	-1.45	444.00	0.16	..	..	..
Cyprus	414.11	0.42	9,240.00	18.67	2.79	10.30	0.08
Czechia	2,697.10	-0.44	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	242.33	0.62	23,180.00	0.25	0.04	0.13	0.00
Dominica	20.59	-0.62	750.00	63.83	22.67	8.00	0.08
Dominican Republic	1,813.68	-2.86	47,531.00	45.28	7.47	18.45	0.08
Ecuador	6,377.75	0.55	248,360.00	50.06	5.73	4.12	0.06
Egypt, Arab Rep.	63,300.99	1.39	995,450.00	0.05	0.96	3.09	0.03
El Salvador	1,598.86	-2.19	20,720.00	27.96	7.72	34.80	0.11
Equatorial Guinea	435.31	0.73	28,050.00	86.99	1.68	1.89	0.03
Eritrea	2,113.71	0.64	121,040.83	8.69	0.02	5.70	0.19
Estonia	408.69	0.40	42,750.00	57.04	0.12	16.37	0.53
Eswatini	906.35	0.51	17,200.00	29.00	1.05	10.29	0.15
Ethiopia	95,420.80	1.91	1,128,571.27	15.06	2.02	14.46	0.14
Faroe Islands	30.38	0.04	1,370.00	0.06	..	0.05	0.00
Fiji	388.37	-0.61	18,270.00	62.76	3.38	4.20	0.08
Finland	795.69	-0.31	303,947.70	73.73	0.01	7.38	0.40
France	12,561.98	-1.16	547,557.00	31.66	1.85	32.79	0.27
French Polynesia	115.87	0.46	3,471.00	43.06	7.49	0.72	0.01
Gabon	221.34	-1.29	257,670.00	91.27	0.66	1.26	0.14
Gambia, The	978.16	0.74	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	18,793.52	0.59	349,390.00	32.68	0.58	33.37	0.14
Ghana	13,853.99	0.43	227,533.00	35.13	11.90	20.70	0.14
Gibraltar	0.00	..	10.00	0.00	..	..	..
Greece	2,075.58	-2.32	128,900.00	30.27	8.44	16.54	0.20
Greenland	6.95	-1.77	410,450.00	0.00	..	..	..
Grenada	79.19	0.39	340.00	52.06	11.76	8.82	0.02
Guam	8.43	-0.81	540.00	51.85	12.96	1.85	0.01
Guatemala	8,216.18	0.55	107,160.00	32.81	11.04	14.50	0.09
Guinea	8,638.80	1.74	245,720.00	25.02	3.41	12.62	0.23
Guinea-Bissau	1,157.20	1.38	28,120.00	70.11	8.89	10.67	0.15
Guyana	590.19	0.34	196,850.00	93.50	0.15	2.13	0.52
Haiti	4,770.70	-0.86	27,560.00	12.49	10.89	36.47	0.09
Honduras	4,214.88	-0.03	111,890.00	56.65	5.36	9.10	0.10
Hungary	2,657.93	-1.38	91,260.00	22.48	1.64	45.36	0.43
Iceland	22.95	1.69	100,830.00	0.52	..	1.20	0.32
India	908,804.81	-0.06	2,973,190.00	24.36	4.57	51.95	0.11
Indonesia	115,892.39	-0.88	1,892,555.47	48.36	14.42	13.90	0.10
Iran, Islamic Rep.	20,537.53	-1.26	1,622,500.00	6.64	1.17	9.68	0.18
Iraq	12,746.36	1.37	434,128.00	1.90	1.08	11.45	0.11
Ireland	1,822.01	0.31	68,890.00	11.41	0.01	6.33	0.09
Isle of Man	39.50	-0.11	570.00	6.07	..	40.70	0.28
Israel	691.18	0.74	21,640.00	6.47	4.74	17.42	0.04
Italy	16,681.80	-1.52	295,717.00	32.53	7.33	24.32	0.12
Jamaica	1,215.55	-0.84	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	922.39	-1.20	88,794.00	1.10	0.92	2.24	0.02
Kazakhstan	8,243.19	2.81	2,699,700.00	1.29	0.05	10.99	1.56
Kenya	38,358.44	1.20	569,140.00	6.34	1.07	10.19	0.11
Kiribati	56.35	0.14	810.00	1.46	39.51	2.47	0.02
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	9,667.58	-0.36	120,410.00	49.90	2.08	19.06	0.09
Korea, Rep.	9,588.89	-0.30	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	4,254.72	1.15	191,800.00	6.95	0.40	6.71	0.19
Lao PDR	4,699.00	0.36	230,800.00	71.75	0.56	5.30	0.16
Latvia	592.51	-0.44	62,230.00	54.87	0.14	21.89	0.72
Lebanon	589.49	-3.42	10,230.00	14.07	13.69	13.62	0.02
Lesotho	1,615.39	0.40	30,360.00	1.14	0.13	14.13	0.19
Liberia	2,488.81	1.04	96,320.00	78.77	2.08	5.19	0.10
Libya	1,273.77	-0.50	1,759,540.00	0.12	0.19	0.98	0.26
Liechtenstein	33.61	0.66	160.00	41.88	..	10.81	0.04
Lithuania	893.39	0.46	62,610.00	35.18	0.58	36.40	0.81
Luxembourg	52.84	-0.88	2,574.46	34.45	0.61	24.27	0.10
Madagascar	17,801.97	1.26	581,800.00	21.34	1.03	5.16	0.10
Malawi	16,736.44	2.21	94,280.00	23.33	2.12	42.43	0.20
Malaysia	7,393.78	-1.27	328,550.00	58.02	22.71	2.51	0.02
Maldives	306.23	-0.29	300.00	2.73	3.33	13.00	0.01
Mali	12,327.74	1.71	1,220,190.00	10.90	0.12	6.84	0.38
Malta	26.83	-0.32	320.00	1.44	2.97	24.38	0.02
Marshall Islands	8.93	-2.80	180.00	52.22	36.11	2.78	0.01
Mauritania	2,040.19	0.77	1,030,700.00	0.30	0.01	0.44	0.10
Mauritius	747.29	-0.36	1,997.00	19.43	2.00	37.56	0.06
Mexico	23,843.27	-0.88	1,943,950.00	33.73	1.45	10.33	0.16
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	87.66	0.72	700.00	92.07	..	2.86	0.02
Moldova	1,473.23	-1.18	32,970.00	11.72	6.85	51.90	0.65
Monaco	0.00	..	2.08	0.00	..	..	..
Mongolia	1,055.87	1.03	1,557,507.00	9.10	0.00	0.86	0.40
Montenegro	196.16	-1.55	13,450.00	61.49	0.41	0.66	0.01
Morocco	13,261.62	-0.47	446,300.00	12.89	3.99	16.83	0.20
Mozambique	20,379.45	1.84	786,380.00	46.41	0.38	7.18	0.18
Myanmar	36,966.00	0.23	652,670.00	43.29	2.31	16.84	0.20
Namibia	1,181.96	-0.60	823,290.00	7.98	0.01	0.97	0.32
Nauru	0.00	..	20.00	0.00	20.00	..	..
Nepal	23,994.82	1.13	143,350.00	41.59	1.48	14.75	0.07
Netherlands	1,259.40	-3.35	33,670.00	11.00	1.10	29.79	0.06
New Caledonia	76.60	-0.67	18,280.00	45.84	0.20	0.33	0.02
New Zealand	672.08	-0.47	263,310.00	37.63	0.28	2.34	0.12
Nicaragua	2,810.21	0.73	120,340.00	27.48	2.46	12.49	0.22
Niger	21,780.40	3.54	1,266,700.00	0.84	0.09	13.97	0.70
Nigeria	101,575.77	0.73	910,770.00	23.57	7.25	40.48	0.17
North Macedonia	841.22	-1.17	25,220.00	39.71	1.63	16.53	0.20
Northern Mariana Islands	3.97	-1.00	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	560.60	-4.38	309,500.00	0.01	0.11	0.27	0.02
Pakistan	146,845.78	1.43	770,880.00	4.78	1.03	39.58	0.13
Palau	3.26	-2.43	460.00	90.20	4.35	0.65	0.02
Panama	1,360.44	0.13	74,180.00	56.65	1.45	7.62	0.13
Papua New Guinea	8,765.05	1.78	452,860.00	79.10	2.03	0.73	0.03
Paraguay	2,521.22	0.28	397,300.00	39.83	0.23	11.92	0.71
Peru	7,249.84	0.01	1,280,000.00	56.37	1.89	3.35	0.13
Philippines	60,117.26	0.90	298,170.00	24.23	18.76	18.75	0.05
Poland	14,974.31	-0.64	306,100.00	31.02	1.24	36.19	0.29
Portugal	3,385.53	-1.10	91,605.60	36.15	9.46	10.54	0.09
Puerto Rico	205.87	-1.54	8,870.00	56.01	1.80	5.66	0.02
Qatar	18.38	-5.44	11,490.00	0.00	0.26	1.83	0.01
Romania	8,627.37	-1.21	230,080.00	30.12	1.74	37.33	0.45
Russian Federation	35,708.05	-0.69	16,376,870.00	49.78	0.11	7.43	0.85
Rwanda	11,335.33	2.13	24,670.00	11.23	14.19	51.41	0.09
Samoa	183.21	1.79	2,780.00	57.98	11.41	4.06	0.05
San Marino	0.76	-5.11	60.00	16.67	5.25	33.08	0.06
Sao Tome and Principe	55.13	-0.88	960.00	53.42	39.58	4.17	0.02
Saudi Arabia	5,559.99	-0.17	2,149,690.00	0.45	0.10	1.60	0.10
Senegal	8,816.50	1.62	192,530.00	41.70	0.42	19.89	0.23
Serbia	2,915.42	-1.61	84,090.00	32.38	2.43	31.10	0.38
Seychelles	41.63	-0.21	460.00	73.26	3.04	0.33	0.00
Sierra Leone	4,833.75	1.36	72,180.00	34.85	2.29	21.95	0.19
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	933.09	-0.70	20,136.40	61.37	2.60	8.99	0.09
Solomon Islands	538.98	1.68	27,990.00	90.11	3.18	0.82	0.03
Somalia	9,269.67	1.95	627,340.00	9.41	0.05	1.75	0.06
South Africa	18,965.40	-0.69	1,213,090.00	14.03	0.34	9.89	0.20
South Sudan	8,638.21	1.10	631,930.00	11.33	0.13	3.79	0.22
Spain	8,902.11	-0.90	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	32.89	-0.02	260.00	42.31	0.38	19.23	0.11
St. Lucia	145.59	-0.02	610.00	34.05	11.31	4.38	0.01
St. Martin (French part)	..	..	50.00	24.80	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.95	-1.28	390.00	73.18	7.69	5.13	0.02
Sudan	30,020.12	2.07	1,868,000.00	9.74	0.12	11.24	0.46
Suriname	208.24	0.56	156,000.00	97.33	0.03	0.37	0.09
Sweden	1,206.84	-1.50	407,283.54	68.70	0.01	6.22	0.24
Switzerland	2,272.06	0.39	39,509.63	32.21	0.64	10.01	0.05
Syrian Arab Republic	9,564.97	2.21	183,630.00	2.84	5.81	25.38	0.22
Tajikistan	7,169.19	1.72	138,790.00	3.06	1.47	6.04	0.09
Tanzania	41,471.86	1.82	885,800.00	51.11	2.28	15.24	0.21
Thailand	33,777.19	-1.40	510,890.00	38.83	10.86	33.57	0.24
Timor-Leste	911.09	0.97	14,870.00	61.85	5.37	7.50	0.08
Togo	4,962.26	1.33	54,390.00	22.18	3.13	48.72	0.31
Tonga	82.15	0.76	720.00	12.43	15.28	27.78	0.19
Trinidad and Tobago	714.39	0.19	5,130.00	44.40	4.29	4.87	0.02
Tunisia	3,680.39	-0.33	155,360.00	4.53	13.64	18.22	0.23
Turkiye	19,609.71	-1.29	769,630.00	29.07	4.67	25.83	0.23
Turkmenistan	2,990.69	0.33	469,930.00	8.78	0.13	4.13	0.31
Turks and Caicos Islands	2.72	-2.22	950.00	11.07	..	1.05	0.02
Tuvalu	3.90	-1.15	30.00	33.33	60.00	..	..
Uganda	34,889.57	2.18	200,520.00	11.45	10.97	34.41	0.15
Ukraine	11,430.78	-14.73	579,400.00	16.73	1.47	56.82	0.75
United Arab Emirates	1,176.08	-1.13	71,020.00	4.47	0.58	0.71	0.01
United Kingdom	10,448.88	-1.65	241,930.00	13.22	0.19	24.84	0.09
United States	56,378.92	-0.86	9,147,420.00	33.87	0.30	17.24	0.48
Uruguay	147.59	-2.05	175,020.00	11.72	0.22	11.60	0.59
Uzbekistan	17,657.93	2.00	440,653.00	8.43	0.96	9.11	0.12
Vanuatu	242.39	2.15	12,190.00	36.28	10.25	1.64	0.06
Venezuela, RB	3,289.22	-0.09	882,050.00	52.35	0.79	2.95	0.09
Vietnam	60,123.74	-0.42	313,429.00	46.96	15.73	21.65	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.	20,491.59	1.09	527,970.00	1.04	0.56	2.19	0.04
Zambia	10,857.39	1.71	743,390.00	60.03	0.05	5.11	0.20
Zimbabwe	11,033.50	1.89	386,850.00	44.97	0.26	10.34	0.25
World	3,426,264.34	-0.18	129,777,684.05	31.18	1.42	10.80	0.18
East Asia & Pacific	896,968.25	-1.77	24,484,453.47	27.19	3.05	9.15	0.09
Europe & Central Asia	247,614.01	-1.16	27,440,754.49	38.54	0.76	12.33	0.36
Latin America & Caribbean	121,167.42	-0.66	20,038,201.00	46.39	1.19	7.72	0.24
Middle East & North Africa	167,269.02	0.62	11,217,118.00	2.05	0.94	4.77	0.11
North America	63,482.85	-0.62	17,936,174.00	36.61	0.16	10.93	0.53
South Asia	1,231,741.61	0.18	4,770,120.00	18.87	3.60	42.87	0.11
Sub-Saharan Africa	698,021.18	1.59	23,890,863.09	26.08	1.41	9.66	0.20
Low income	460,785.75	1.95	14,745,302.09	20.15	0.84	9.35	0.20
Lower middle income	1,842,111.90	0.25	24,014,688.00	24.25	2.68	16.94	0.13
Upper middle income	891,354.03	-1.96	54,869,206.47	37.69	1.62	9.19	0.18
High income	228,723.44	-0.76	35,266,437.49	29.84	0.49	9.90	0.28

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