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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, United States
421,540.37thousand hectares
period 2024
Geography
United States (USA)
Observation date
2024
Unit
thousand hectares
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change0contextual0.00%2023 to 2024from 421,540.37 to 421,540.37 thousand hectares
10-year trend-0.07% per yearcontextual-0.74%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -3,141.08 thousand hectares, from 424,681.45 to 421,540.37 thousand hectares
Historical series

Agricultural land area, United States

Observed
410,000420,000430,000440,000450,00019611970198019902000201020202024THOUSAND HECTARES421,540.37
64 observations, 1961 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (64 rows)
Agricultural land area, United States: 64 observations from 1961 to 2024, values from 412,857.6 to 447,509 thousand hectares. Latest 421,540.37 thousand hectares in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (thousand hectares)Source revisionIngested at
2024421,540.372026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2023421,540.372026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2022421,540.372026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2021422,680.92026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2020423,821.442026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2019424,961.972026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2018426,102.512026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2017427,243.042026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2016426,389.182026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2015425,535.312026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2014424,681.452026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2013423,827.582026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2012422,973.722026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2011420,950.492026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2010418,927.272026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2009416,904.052026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2008414,880.822026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2007412,857.62026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2006412,898.882026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2005412,940.162026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2004412,981.442026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2003413,022.722026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2002413,0642026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2001414,9442026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2000414,3992026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1999413,8872026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1998414,5882026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1997414,8852026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1996416,3062026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1995420,1392026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1994421,1392026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1993422,9482026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1992425,4292026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1991426,9482026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1990426,9482026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1989426,9482026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1988426,9482026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1987426,9482026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1986431,3992026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1985431,3992026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1984431,3992026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1983431,3992026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1982431,3992026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1981428,1632026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1980428,1632026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1979428,1632026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1978428,1632026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1977430,3312026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1976430,1582026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1975430,1582026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1974430,1582026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1973432,463.32026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1972434,686.62026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1971437,009.92026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1970439,333.22026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1969435,4472026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1968435,7952026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1967435,3072026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1966435,5502026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1965435,8732026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1964439,0122026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1963441,4432026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1962443,9912026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1961447,5092026-07-172026-09-07 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
2026-10-02(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-10-19 00:15 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
2026-07-17421,540.372026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.