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Agricultural Land, 2012

2012, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Land, 2012 covers 210 countries. Uruguay is highest, at 81.345; Suriname is lowest, at 0.456. The middle country reads 38.469. Against 2011, 166 values changed (84 up, 82 down), 2 countries joined.

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Agricultural Land · Data for 2012

HighestUruguay

81.345

LowestSuriname

0.456

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, 2012, 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 210 countries · select a heading to sort

Agricultural Land, 2012: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1UruguayURYSouth America81.345
2Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia80.813
3KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia80.384
4South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa79.418
5RwandaRWAEastern Africa79.408
6SyriaSYRWestern Asia75.810
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa75.273
8MoldovaMDAEastern Europe74.863
9NigeriaNGAWestern Africa73.755
10TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia73.576
11DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa73.460
12HaitiHTICaribbean73.440
13MongoliaMNGEastern Asia73.249
14BurundiBDIEastern Africa72.430
15UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.888
16ComorosCOMEastern Africa71.467
17UkraineUKREastern Europe71.285
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe71.021
19EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa70.930
20TogoTGOWestern Africa70.785
21MadagascarMDGEastern Africa70.291
22SomaliaSOMEastern Africa70.179
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia70.062
24Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe69.057
25Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa68.964

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uruguay81.345
  2. 2Saudi Arabia80.813
  3. 3Kazakhstan80.384
  4. 4South Africa79.418
  5. 5Rwanda79.408

Lowest

  1. 210Suriname0.456
  2. 209Greenland0.593
  3. 208Singapore1.034
  4. 207Turks and Caicos Islands1.053
  5. 206Bahamas1.299

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 38.469. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 166values changed, of 208 in both
  • 84 · 82rose · fell
  • 42unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Sudan+ South Sudan

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 2012.

  • 209 distinct values among 210

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 33.333. 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 210 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) (2012). Agricultural Land, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-land/2012

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07Questions

Agricultural Land, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural land in Agricultural Land, 2012?

Uruguay, at 81.345, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Land, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Agricultural Land, 2012 cover?

210.

Where can I download Agricultural Land, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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