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Agricultural Land, 1990

1990, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 1990 covers 177 countries. Uruguay is highest, at 85.230; Suriname is lowest, at 0.548. The middle country reads 37.037. Against 1989, 141 values changed (79 up, 62 down), the same countries are covered.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 1990

HighestUruguay

85.230

LowestSuriname

0.548

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, 1990, 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, 1990: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1UruguayURYSouth America85.230
2PalestinePSEWestern Asia83.223
3MongoliaMNGEastern Asia81.203
4BurundiBDIEastern Africa81.075
5BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia79.788
6South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa78.807
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa76.449
8RwandaRWAEastern Africa76.125
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe75.241
10SyriaSYRWestern Asia73.430
11HungaryHUNEastern Europe72.037
12EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa71.977
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.544
14SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.204
15DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe69.700
16Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe69.474
17Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.149
18MoroccoMARNorthern Africa67.988
19TuvaluTUVPolynesia66.667
20IrelandIRLNorthern Europe65.864
21NigeriaNGAWestern Africa64.466
22RomaniaROUEastern Europe64.395
23CubaCUBCaribbean62.765
24MadagascarMDGEastern Africa62.463
25PolandPOLEastern Europe61.357

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uruguay85.230
  2. 2Palestine83.223
  3. 3Mongolia81.203
  4. 4Burundi81.075
  5. 5Bangladesh79.788

Lowest

  1. 177Suriname0.548
  2. 176Greenland0.693
  3. 175Turks and Caicos Islands1.053
  4. 174Bahamas1.099
  5. 173Papua New Guinea2.049

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 37.037. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 141values changed, of 177 in both
  • 79 · 62rose · fell
  • 36unchanged

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 1990.

  • 176 distinct values among 177

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 28.571. 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) (1990). Agricultural Land, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/1990

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 1990?

Uruguay, at 85.230, of the 177 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 1990 cover?

177.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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