Countries with the Most Farmland 2023
About This Dataset
Countries with the Most Farmland 2023
Countries ranked by agricultural land (% of land area) in 2023, using World Bank figures for the 209 countries that reported that year. Cote d'Ivoire leads on 86.48, ahead of Turkmenistan (84.22) and Burundi (83.89). Arable land, permanent crops and permanent pasture as a share of land area, under the FAO definition. Pasture dominates the total in dry countries, so a high share does not mean intensive farming.
Analysis
Cote d'Ivoire (86.48), Turkmenistan (84.22) and Burundi (83.89) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 86.48 down to 70.31, a spread of 16.17. Only 2.26 separates Cote d'Ivoire from Turkmenistan in second, 2.6% of the leading figure. The chart shows the twenty highest of 209 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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Cote d'Ivoire leads in Agricultural Land (% of Land Area) with 86.48 in 2023.
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Average Agricultural Land (% of Land Area) in 2023: 76 · median: 75.
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Gap in 2023: Cote d'Ivoire is 1.2× larger than United Kingdom.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2023 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Agricultural Land (% of Land Area)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
Data Sources & References
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