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Agricultural Land, 1978

1978, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 1978 covers 177 countries. Uruguay is highest, at 86.624; Suriname is lowest, at 0.386. The middle country reads 35.969. Against 1977, 125 values changed (86 up, 39 down), the same countries are covered.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 1978

HighestUruguay

86.624

LowestSuriname

0.386

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Agricultural Land, 1978, as published. FAO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 177 countries · select a heading to sort

Agricultural Land, 1978: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1UruguayURYSouth America86.624
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa82.555
3PalestinePSEWestern Asia81.894
4MongoliaMNGEastern Asia81.371
5EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa80.988
6South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa77.543
7BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia76.723
8United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe76.377
9SyriaSYRWestern Asia76.227
10LesothoLSOSouthern Africa75.527
11HungaryHUNEastern Europe74.447
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe73.025
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.179
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe70.915
15SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.121
16Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.149
17RwandaRWAEastern Africa68.099
18TuvaluTUVPolynesia66.667
19RomaniaROUEastern Europe64.969
20AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand64.577
21SpainESPSouthern Europe63.015
22MoroccoMARNorthern Africa62.554
23PolandPOLEastern Europe62.395
24MadagascarMDGEastern Africa61.905
25NigeriaNGAWestern Africa61.513

02In 1978

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uruguay86.624
  2. 2Burundi82.555
  3. 3Palestine81.894
  4. 4Mongolia81.371
  5. 5Eswatini80.988

Lowest

  1. 177Suriname0.386
  2. 176Greenland0.688
  3. 175Turks and Caicos Islands1.053
  4. 174Bahamas1.099
  5. 173Papua New Guinea1.729

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 35.969. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031977 → 1978

Since 1977

What changed between 1977 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 125values changed, of 177 in both
  • 86 · 39rose · fell
  • 52unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1978.

  • 176 distinct values among 177

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 42.857. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    FAO publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 177 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (1978). Agricultural Land, 1978 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/1978

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 1978: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 1978?

Uruguay, at 86.624, of the 177 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 1978 cover?

177.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 1978?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Agricultural Land, 1978 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Agricultural Land, 2023.

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