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Agricultural Land, 1997

1997, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 1997 covers 204 countries. Uruguay is highest, at 85.3902; Suriname is lowest, at 0.5483. The middle country reads 38.1486. Against 1996, 159 values changed (95 up, 64 down), the same countries are covered.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 1997

HighestUruguay

85.3902

LowestSuriname

0.5483

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, 1997, 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 204 countries · select a heading to sort

Agricultural Land, 1997: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1UruguayURYSouth America85.3902
2MongoliaMNGEastern Asia83.2931
3South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa80.7401
4KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia79.8947
5PalestinePSEWestern Asia77.8294
6MoldovaMDAEastern Europe77.6428
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa76.7128
8BurundiBDIEastern Africa76.0125
9TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia75.5432
10SyriaSYRWestern Asia75.1115
11Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe74.5614
12Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia73.8622
13EritreaERIEastern Africa72.8713
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe72.6863
15UkraineUKREastern Europe72.2430
16BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia71.9444
17EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa71.1047
18NigeriaNGAWestern Africa70.7094
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.2426
20GreeceGRCSouthern Europe69.7052
21MoroccoMARNorthern Africa69.2247
22Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.1268
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe68.9866
24ComorosCOMEastern Africa67.7055
25DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe67.2000

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uruguay85.3902
  2. 2Mongolia83.2931
  3. 3South Africa80.7401
  4. 4Kazakhstan79.8947
  5. 5Palestine77.8294

Lowest

  1. 204Suriname0.5483
  2. 203Greenland0.5820
  3. 202Bahamas0.9990
  4. 201Turks and Caicos Islands1.0526
  5. 200Singapore1.7910

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 38.1486. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 159values changed, of 204 in both
  • 95 · 64rose · fell
  • 45unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Malta34.3750 → 31.2500−3.1250
  • Tonga45.8333 → 43.0556−2.7778
  • Puerto Rico34.8365 → 32.8072−2.0293
  • Latvia30.1155 → 28.4764−1.6392
  • Portugal40.7650 → 39.1475−1.6175

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 1997.

  • 203 distinct values among 204

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 8.6957. 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 204 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) (1997). Agricultural Land, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/1997

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 1997?

Uruguay, at 85.3902, of the 204 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 1997 cover?

204.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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