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)


2021	2021	2020	2020	2020	2020	2020

Afghanistan	29,547.69	2.46	652,230.00	1.85	0.41	12.00	0.20
Albania	1,041.19	-3.21	27,400.00	28.79	3.21	21.88	0.21
Algeria	11,370.97	-0.37	2,381,741.00	0.82	0.42	3.15	0.17
American Samoa	5.78	-2.66	200.00	85.65	3.75	15.95	0.07
Andorra	9.60	2.18	470.00	34.04	..	1.53	0.01
Angola	11,227.53	1.23	1,246,700.00	53.43	0.25	3.93	0.15
Antigua and Barbuda	70.49	0.67	440.00	18.45	2.27	9.09	0.04
Argentina	3,559.80	-0.56	2,736,690.00	10.44	0.39	11.92	0.72
Armenia	1,020.63	-0.85	28,470.00	11.54	2.11	15.60	0.16
Aruba	59.80	-0.35	180.00	2.33	..	11.11	0.02
Australia	3,503.34	-0.76	7,692,020.00	17.42	0.05	3.98	1.19
Austria	3,672.33	-0.16	82,520.00	47.25	0.81	16.01	0.15
Azerbaijan	4,381.94	-0.43	82,646.00	13.69	3.30	25.22	0.21
Bahamas, The	67.86	-0.37	10,010.00	50.94	0.40	0.80	0.02
Bahrain	151.86	-2.08	785.00	0.89	3.82	2.04	0.00
Bangladesh	103,398.77	-0.10	130,170.00	14.47	9.99	61.46	0.05
Barbados	193.34	0.10	430.00	14.65	2.33	16.28	0.02
Belarus	1,876.47	-2.53	202,980.00	43.19	0.49	27.88	0.60
Belgium	218.30	-1.53	30,280.00	22.76	0.78	28.56	0.07
Belize	215.21	0.96	22,810.00	55.99	1.40	3.95	0.23
Benin	6,632.06	1.67	112,760.00	27.80	5.32	24.83	0.22
Bermuda	0.00	..	54.00	18.52	..	5.56	0.00
Bhutan	443.11	-0.56	38,140.00	71.45	0.16	2.46	0.12
Bolivia	3,566.46	0.01	1,083,300.00	46.92	0.23	4.19	0.38
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,654.28	-2.24	51,200.00	42.73	2.07	19.82	0.31
Botswana	736.15	-0.74	566,730.00	26.92	0.00	0.46	0.10
Brazil	27,183.00	-1.38	8,358,140.00	59.42	0.93	6.67	0.26
British Virgin Islands	15.90	-0.11	150.00	24.13	6.67	6.67	0.03
Brunei Darussalam	95.52	-0.58	5,270.00	72.11	1.14	0.76	0.01
Bulgaria	1,648.94	-2.22	108,560.00	35.86	1.40	32.17	0.50
Burkina Faso	15,196.43	1.73	273,600.00	22.72	0.52	21.93	0.28
Burundi	10,786.76	2.27	25,680.00	10.89	13.63	46.73	0.10
Cabo Verde	193.42	-0.46	4,030.00	11.34	0.99	12.41	0.09
Cambodia	12,496.84	0.59	176,520.00	45.71	2.34	21.96	0.24
Cameroon	11,383.17	1.24	472,710.00	43.03	3.28	13.12	0.23
Canada	7,017.01	0.05	8,965,590.00	38.70	0.02	4.26	1.01
Cayman Islands	0.00	..	240.00	53.00	2.08	0.83	0.00
Central African Republic	3,129.79	1.33	622,980.00	35.80	0.13	2.89	0.34
Chad	13,094.23	2.82	1,259,200.00	3.43	0.03	4.13	0.31
Channel Islands	119.13	0.84	..	5.15	..	..	..
Chile	2,374.86	0.26	743,532.00	24.49	0.67	1.61	0.06
China	529,465.52	-2.76	9,424,702.90	23.43	1.72	12.68	0.08
Hong Kong SAR, China	0.00	..	1,050.00	..	0.95	1.90	0.00
Macao SAR, China	0.00	..	32.90	..	..	..	..
Colombia	9,406.92	-0.57	1,109,500.00	53.31	3.48	4.40	0.10
Comoros	578.32	1.57	1,861.00	17.69	26.87	35.46	0.08
Congo, Dem. Rep.	51,557.47	2.12	2,267,050.00	55.65	0.84	5.94	0.15
Congo, Rep.	1,850.94	0.90	341,500.00	64.26	0.23	1.61	0.10
Costa Rica	957.35	-2.86	51,060.00	59.44	6.21	4.79	0.05
Cote d'Ivoire	13,140.10	1.47	318,000.00	8.92	14.15	11.01	0.13
Croatia	1,642.34	-4.51	55,960.00	34.65	1.41	15.89	0.22
Cuba	2,556.10	-0.82	103,800.00	31.23	6.29	28.02	0.26
Curacao	16.70	-1.46	444.00	0.16	..	..	..
Cyprus	412.37	0.43	9,240.00	18.67	3.19	11.08	0.08
Czechia	2,709.02	-2.40	77,198.53	34.68	0.65	32.18	0.23
Denmark	688.75	-0.62	40,000.00	15.71	0.67	59.27	0.41
Djibouti	240.82	0.69	23,180.00	0.25	..	0.09	0.00
Dominica	20.71	-0.49	750.00	63.83	22.67	8.00	0.08
Dominican Republic	1,866.36	-2.86	48,310.00	44.38	7.35	18.15	0.08
Ecuador	6,342.94	0.64	248,360.00	50.32	5.81	4.18	0.06
Egypt, Arab Rep.	62,430.22	1.52	995,450.00	0.05	0.61	3.38	0.03
El Salvador	1,634.23	-2.23	20,720.00	28.18	7.72	34.80	0.11
Equatorial Guinea	432.14	0.65	28,050.00	87.29	1.60	4.94	0.09
Eritrea	2,100.32	0.70	121,040.83	8.72	0.02	5.70	0.19
Estonia	407.07	-0.50	42,750.00	57.04	0.12	16.23	0.52
Eswatini	901.73	0.72	17,200.00	28.93	0.87	10.17	0.15
Ethiopia	93,611.47	1.99	1,128,571.27	15.12	2.02	14.35	0.14
Faroe Islands	30.37	0.58	1,366.00	0.06	..	0.05	0.00
Fiji	390.74	-0.71	18,270.00	62.40	3.38	4.20	0.08
Finland	798.13	-0.34	303,940.00	73.73	0.02	7.38	0.41
France	12,708.48	-1.15	547,557.00	31.51	1.85	32.79	0.27
French Polynesia	115.33	0.46	3,471.00	43.06	7.20	0.72	0.01
Gabon	224.22	-1.30	257,670.00	91.32	0.66	1.26	0.14
Gambia, The	970.91	0.80	10,120.00	23.98	0.49	43.48	0.17
Georgia	1,488.19	-1.42	69,490.00	40.62	1.84	4.46	0.08
Germany	18,682.51	-0.36	349,390.00	32.68	0.57	33.38	0.14
Ghana	13,794.80	0.51	227,533.00	35.10	11.90	11.05	0.08
Gibraltar	0.00	..	10.00	0.00	..	..	..
Greece	2,124.20	-2.14	128,900.00	30.27	8.44	16.54	0.20
Greenland	7.08	-1.28	410,450.00	0.00	..	..	..
Grenada	78.89	0.52	340.00	52.06	11.76	8.82	0.02
Guam	8.50	-0.76	540.00	51.85	12.96	1.85	0.01
Guatemala	8,170.76	0.63	107,160.00	32.92	11.04	8.04	0.05
Guinea	8,489.38	1.83	245,720.00	25.19	2.85	12.62	0.23
Guinea-Bissau	1,141.29	1.45	28,120.00	70.41	8.89	10.67	0.15
Guyana	588.16	0.77	196,850.00	93.55	0.20	2.13	0.53
Haiti	4,812.10	-0.83	27,560.00	12.60	10.16	38.82	0.09
Honduras	4,215.97	0.03	111,890.00	56.83	5.15	9.12	0.10
Hungary	2,694.98	-1.50	91,260.00	22.50	1.73	43.96	0.41
Iceland	22.56	0.88	100,830.00	0.51	..	1.20	0.33
India	909,384.77	0.08	2,973,190.00	24.27	4.47	52.26	0.11
Indonesia	116,919.99	-0.81	1,877,519.00	49.07	13.32	14.01	0.10
Iran, Islamic Rep.	20,798.29	-1.25	1,622,500.00	6.63	1.17	9.64	0.18
Iraq	12,572.94	1.49	434,128.00	1.90	0.58	11.52	0.12
Ireland	1,816.37	0.24	68,890.00	11.35	0.01	6.45	0.09
Isle of Man	39.54	-0.12	570.00	6.07	..	41.23	0.28
Israel	686.01	0.42	21,640.00	6.47	4.69	17.56	0.04
Italy	16,937.28	-1.62	295,717.00	32.35	8.21	23.10	0.11
Jamaica	1,225.75	-0.53	10,830.00	55.11	8.77	11.08	0.04
Japan	10,221.68	-1.50	364,500.00	68.41	0.74	11.26	0.03
Jordan	933.56	-0.46	88,794.00	1.10	0.91	2.32	0.02
Kazakhstan	8,014.43	0.94	2,699,700.00	1.28	0.05	10.95	1.58
Kenya	37,902.72	1.25	569,140.00	6.34	0.93	10.19	0.11
Kiribati	56.27	0.21	810.00	1.46	39.51	2.47	0.02
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	9,702.59	-0.29	120,410.00	50.08	2.16	18.94	0.09
Korea, Rep.	9,617.30	-0.18	97,600.00	64.42	2.18	13.85	0.03
Kosovo	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Kuwait	0.00	..	17,820.00	0.35	0.34	0.45	0.00
Kyrgyz Republic	4,206.06	1.23	191,800.00	6.86	0.40	6.71	0.20
Lao PDR	4,682.32	0.41	230,800.00	71.90	0.56	5.30	0.17
Latvia	595.10	-1.18	62,230.00	54.81	0.14	21.44	0.70
Lebanon	609.99	-2.78	10,230.00	14.01	13.13	13.23	0.02
Lesotho	1,608.88	0.57	30,360.00	1.14	0.13	19.63	0.26
Liberia	2,463.08	1.04	96,320.00	79.08	2.08	5.19	0.10
Libya	1,280.11	-0.37	1,759,540.00	0.12	0.19	0.98	0.26
Liechtenstein	33.39	0.66	160.00	41.88	..	8.81	0.04
Lithuania	889.29	-0.42	62,620.00	35.15	0.57	35.92	0.80
Luxembourg	53.31	-1.08	2,574.46	34.45	0.60	24.13	0.10
Madagascar	17,578.69	1.32	581,800.00	21.36	1.03	5.16	0.11
Malawi	16,370.25	2.29	94,280.00	23.78	2.12	38.18	0.19
Malaysia	7,488.32	-1.25	328,550.00	58.18	22.71	2.51	0.02
Maldives	307.13	0.62	300.00	2.73	5.00	13.00	0.01
Mali	12,118.49	1.78	1,220,190.00	10.90	0.12	5.25	0.30
Malta	26.91	-0.64	320.00	1.44	4.09	28.34	0.02
Marshall Islands	9.18	-4.86	180.00	52.22	36.11	11.11	0.05
Mauritania	2,024.45	0.73	1,030,700.00	0.30	0.01	0.39	0.09
Mauritius	749.82	0.00	2,030.00	19.10	1.97	36.95	0.06
Mexico	24,053.70	-0.93	1,943,950.00	33.79	1.44	10.32	0.16
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	87.03	0.73	700.00	92.03	24.29	2.86	0.02
Moldova	1,490.72	-1.02	32,884.60	11.75	6.91	51.69	0.65
Monaco	0.00	..	2.03	0.00	..	..	..
Mongolia	1,045.01	1.20	1,557,506.80	9.10	0.00	0.86	0.41
Montenegro	199.23	-1.38	13,450.00	61.49	0.41	0.68	0.01
Morocco	13,323.47	-0.42	446,300.00	12.87	3.88	17.14	0.21
Mozambique	20,007.11	1.96	786,380.00	46.73	0.38	7.18	0.18
Myanmar	36,879.66	0.25	652,670.00	43.73	2.31	16.88	0.21
Namibia	1,189.04	-0.41	823,290.00	8.06	0.01	0.97	0.32
Nauru	0.00	..	20.00	0.00	20.00	..	..
Nepal	23,725.24	1.77	143,350.00	41.59	1.48	14.75	0.07
Netherlands	1,302.36	-3.90	33,670.00	10.97	1.11	29.84	0.06
New Caledonia	76.09	-1.48	18,280.00	45.84	0.20	0.33	0.02
New Zealand	676.75	-0.04	263,310.00	37.57	0.28	2.00	0.10
Nicaragua	2,789.75	0.74	120,340.00	28.32	2.38	12.50	0.22
Niger	21,022.64	3.56	1,266,700.00	0.85	0.09	13.97	0.73
Nigeria	100,840.66	0.75	910,770.00	23.75	7.14	38.43	0.17
North Macedonia	851.11	-1.09	25,220.00	39.71	1.63	16.49	0.20
Northern Mariana Islands	4.01	-1.34	460.00	52.96	0.20	0.17	0.00
Norway	901.95	-1.54	364,285.00	33.44	0.01	2.21	0.15
Oman	585.67	-6.26	309,500.00	0.01	0.11	0.24	0.02
Pakistan	144,765.16	1.40	770,880.00	4.83	1.03	40.12	0.14
Palau	3.34	-2.34	460.00	90.02	4.35	0.65	0.02
Panama	1,358.68	0.17	74,180.00	56.81	1.35	7.62	0.13
Papua New Guinea	8,610.64	1.90	452,860.00	79.18	1.55	0.66	0.03
Paraguay	2,514.19	0.45	397,300.00	40.53	0.23	11.92	0.72
Peru	7,248.83	0.29	1,280,000.00	56.51	1.64	2.80	0.11
Philippines	59,577.63	0.97	298,170.00	24.11	18.73	18.75	0.05
Poland	15,070.54	-0.48	306,130.00	30.98	1.14	35.67	0.29
Portugal	3,422.89	-1.34	91,605.60	36.15	9.46	10.39	0.09
Puerto Rico	209.13	-0.72	8,870.00	55.96	1.69	5.66	0.02
Qatar	19.41	-8.43	11,490.00	0.00	0.26	1.83	0.01
Romania	8,732.24	-1.05	230,080.00	30.12	1.81	38.75	0.46
Russian Federation	35,957.00	-1.15	16,376,870.00	49.78	0.11	7.43	0.84
Rwanda	11,096.90	2.21	24,670.00	11.19	10.13	46.68	0.09
Samoa	179.95	1.95	2,780.00	58.15	11.41	4.06	0.05
San Marino	0.80	-5.81	60.00	16.67	5.25	33.08	0.06
Sao Tome and Principe	55.61	-0.82	960.00	54.06	40.63	4.17	0.02
Saudi Arabia	5,569.44	-1.55	2,149,690.00	0.45	0.08	1.60	0.10
Senegal	8,674.63	1.72	192,530.00	41.91	0.41	16.62	0.19
Serbia	2,962.61	-1.42	87,460.00	31.13	2.37	29.77	0.38
Seychelles	41.72	-0.20	460.00	73.26	3.04	0.33	0.00
Sierra Leone	4,768.44	1.45	72,180.00	35.12	2.29	21.95	0.19
Singapore	0.00	..	718.00	21.69	0.14	0.78	0.00
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0.00	..	34.00	10.88	..	..	..
Slovak Republic	2,515.54	-0.34	48,080.00	40.06	0.37	28.00	0.25
Slovenia	939.63	-0.42	20,136.40	61.47	2.63	8.99	0.09
Solomon Islands	529.98	1.77	27,990.00	90.14	3.18	0.71	0.03
Somalia	9,090.66	2.04	627,340.00	9.53	0.04	1.75	0.07
South Africa	19,096.39	-0.52	1,213,090.00	14.06	0.34	9.89	0.20
South Sudan	8,543.37	0.93	631,930.00	11.33	0.13	3.79	0.23
Spain	8,982.44	-1.18	499,556.65	37.18	10.02	23.30	0.25
Sri Lanka	17,977.38	0.89	61,860.00	34.16	16.17	22.18	0.06
St. Kitts and Nevis	32.89	-0.17	260.00	42.31	0.38	19.23	0.10
St. Lucia	145.63	0.11	610.00	34.05	11.31	4.38	0.01
St. Martin (French part)	..	..	50.00	24.80	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	48.56	-1.19	390.00	73.18	7.69	5.13	0.02
Sudan	29,406.43	2.17	1,868,000.00	9.83	0.12	11.24	0.47
Suriname	207.07	0.76	156,000.00	97.41	0.03	0.40	0.10
Sweden	1,225.11	-1.59	407,283.53	68.70	0.01	6.23	0.25
Switzerland	2,263.23	0.44	39,516.03	32.12	0.64	10.12	0.05
Syrian Arab Republic	9,356.28	1.15	183,630.00	2.84	5.83	25.39	0.22
Tajikistan	7,046.76	1.84	138,790.00	3.05	1.45	6.05	0.09
Tanzania	40,725.78	1.88	885,800.00	51.64	2.28	15.24	0.22
Thailand	34,251.82	-1.35	510,890.00	38.90	10.57	32.90	0.24
Timor-Leste	902.27	1.05	14,870.00	61.94	5.37	7.50	0.09
Togo	4,896.60	1.39	54,390.00	22.23	3.13	48.72	0.31
Tonga	81.52	0.72	720.00	12.43	15.28	27.78	0.19
Trinidad and Tobago	713.02	0.38	5,130.00	44.48	4.29	4.87	0.02
Tunisia	3,692.62	-0.23	155,360.00	4.52	15.36	16.70	0.21
Turkiye	19,863.73	-1.20	769,630.00	28.87	4.62	25.45	0.23
Turkmenistan	2,980.80	0.43	469,930.00	8.78	0.13	4.13	0.31
Turks and Caicos Islands	2.78	-1.75	950.00	11.07	..	1.05	0.02
Tuvalu	3.95	-0.96	30.00	33.33	60.00	..	..
Uganda	34,136.76	2.41	200,520.00	11.66	10.97	34.41	0.16
Ukraine	13,244.27	-1.26	579,400.00	16.72	1.47	56.82	0.75
United Arab Emirates	1,189.47	-1.12	71,020.00	4.47	0.57	0.69	0.01
United Kingdom	10,669.92	-1.19	241,930.00	13.19	0.19	24.71	0.09
United States	56,843.44	-1.09	9,147,420.00	33.87	0.30	17.24	0.48
Uruguay	150.65	-2.06	175,020.00	11.60	0.22	11.57	0.59
Uzbekistan	17,308.46	1.95	440,650.00	8.37	0.94	9.13	0.12
Vanuatu	237.23	2.17	12,190.00	36.28	10.25	1.64	0.06
Venezuela, RB	3,292.33	-1.42	882,050.00	52.41	0.79	2.95	0.09
Vietnam	60,379.50	-0.30	313,429.00	46.72	15.73	21.65	0.07
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	4.19	-2.92	350.00	56.89	0.57	2.57	0.01
West Bank and Gaza	1,132.09	1.23	6,020.00	1.68	16.30	11.59	0.01
Yemen, Rep.	20,268.54	1.10	527,970.00	1.04	0.56	2.19	0.04
Zambia	10,672.83	1.82	743,390.00	60.28	0.05	5.11	0.20
Zimbabwe	10,827.14	1.96	386,850.00	45.09	0.26	10.34	0.26
World	3,432,438.17	-0.09	129,979,826.52	31.18	1.35	10.71	0.18
East Asia & Pacific	913,162.11	-1.71	24,505,909.60	27.18	2.82	9.52	0.10
Europe & Central Asia	250,574.93	-0.70	27,443,748.82	38.52	0.76	12.30	0.36
Latin America & Caribbean	121,971.06	-0.61	20,038,980.00	46.51	1.24	7.17	0.22
Middle East & North Africa	166,238.64	0.57	11,217,108.00	2.05	0.91	4.79	0.11
North America	63,860.46	-0.96	18,113,064.00	36.26	0.16	10.82	0.53
South Asia	1,229,549.24	0.32	4,770,120.00	18.82	3.54	43.13	0.11
Sub-Saharan Africa	687,081.74	1.66	23,890,896.09	26.25	1.26	9.32	0.19
Low income	466,392.79	2.03	15,734,412.09	23.99	0.78	9.01	0.21
Lower middle income	1,937,063.22	0.36	24,841,039.80	25.21	3.44	17.01	0.13
Upper middle income	791,042.82	-2.08	53,276,365.50	37.47	1.11	8.96	0.19
High income	229,914.38	-1.01	35,245,959.12	29.33	0.49	9.86	0.28

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