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Agricultural land area

Observed

Land used for crops and permanent pasture, in thousand hectares, from FAOSTAT land use.

Ingestedfrom Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsfreshJSON export
Current value, World
4.64Mthousand hectares
period 2024
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2024
Unit
thousand hectares
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+2,816.58contextual+0.06%2023 to 2024from 4.64M to 4.64M thousand hectares
10-year trend-0.12% per yearcontextual-1.21%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -57,043.17 thousand hectares, from 4.7M to 4.64M thousand hectares
Historical series

Agricultural land area, World

Observed
4.5M4.6M4.7M4.8M19611970198019902000201020202024THOUSAND HECTARES4.64M
64 observations, 1961 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (64 rows)
Agricultural land area, World: 64 observations from 1961 to 2024, values from 4.52M to 4.79M thousand hectares. Latest 4.64M thousand hectares in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (thousand hectares)Source revisionIngested at
20244,644,887.332026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20234,642,070.752026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20224,646,571.912026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20214,651,713.222026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20204,655,548.552026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20194,674,943.812026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20184,690,732.972026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20174,704,091.122026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20164,674,371.82026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20154,680,210.732026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20144,701,930.52026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20134,701,105.452026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20124,713,392.642026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20114,717,479.452026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20104,699,306.612026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20094,695,158.022026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20084,701,186.722026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20074,715,063.42026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20064,725,838.942026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20054,728,649.172026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20044,721,807.32026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20034,763,489.22026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20024,782,736.712026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20014,792,229.532026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20004,792,272.452026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19994,788,760.592026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19984,787,600.942026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19974,774,711.442026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19964,756,626.722026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19954,748,759.352026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19944,749,422.932026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19934,734,169.162026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19924,755,575.962026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19914,722,153.642026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19904,723,749.362026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19894,719,036.462026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19884,712,738.872026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19874,700,737.372026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19864,690,396.372026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19854,695,848.72026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19844,671,719.152026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19834,650,045.452026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19824,646,753.332026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19814,635,864.62026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19804,634,958.312026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19794,625,936.92026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19784,622,705.262026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19774,611,123.282026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19764,610,394.852026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19754,614,021.642026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19744,611,962.752026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19734,604,484.32026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19724,598,774.42026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19714,588,550.672026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19704,578,408.572026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19694,588,860.212026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19684,586,808.172026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19674,556,416.932026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19664,548,667.762026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19654,544,854.532026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19644,535,408.162026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19634,530,288.272026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19624,524,842.972026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
19614,518,546.22026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
225 geographies have observations for this metric
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service), series RL:6610:5110
Definition

What this measures

Agricultural land is the sum of cropland (arable land and land under permanent crops) and permanent meadows and pastures. FAOSTAT domain RL, item Agricultural land (6610), element Area (5110), unit 1000 ha, stored unconverted. Annual; values are as reported by countries to FAO or estimated by FAO.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
country
Slug
agricultural-land-area
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Series ID
RL:6610:5110last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-17(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 20:16 UTC
Parser version
faostat-bulk/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
FAOSTAT revises history in place; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the domain's DateUpdate. Aggregates other than World and former countries (USSR, Sudan (former), ...) are not stored. Stored in the source unit of thousand hectares.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 10,000,000 thousand hectares.
64 periods with values for this geography, 1961 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (thousand hectares)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-174,644,887.332026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.