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Country Comparison :: Land use
This entry contains the percentage shares of total land area for three different types of land use: arable land - land cultivated for crops like wheat, maize, and rice that are replanted after each harvest; permanent crops - land cultivated for crops like citrus, coffee, and rubber that are not replanted after each harvest; includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber; other - any land not arable or under permanent crops; includes permanent meadows and pastures, forests and woodlands, built-on areas, roads, barren land, etc.
All data in the table below is from 2005 except for Curacao (NA), Gaza Strip (2002), Hong Kong (2001), Isle of Man (2002), Montenegro (NA), Sint Maarten (NA), Taiwan (2001), the U.S. Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges (2008) and the West Bank (2001).
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Rank Country (%)
1 Anguilla 100.00
2 Antarctica 100.00
3 Bouvet Island 100.00
4 Ashmore and Cartier Islands 100.00
5 British Indian Ocean Territory 100.00
6 Clipperton Island 100.00
7 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 100.00
8 Coral Sea Islands 100.00
9 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 100.00
10 Spratly Islands 100.00
11 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands 100.00
12 Paracel Islands 100.00
13 Norfolk Island 100.00
14 Navassa Island 100.00
15 Nauru 100.00
16 Monaco 100.00
17 Macau 100.00
18 Jersey 100.00
19 Wake Island 100.00
20 United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges 100.00
21 Tokelau 100.00
22 Svalbard 100.00
23 Jan Mayen 100.00
24 Holy See (Vatican City) 100.00
25 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 100.00
26 Greenland 100.00
27 Gibraltar 100.00
28 Christmas Island 100.00
29 Western Sahara 99.98
30 Djibouti 99.96
31 Iceland 99.93
32 Mauritania 99.79
33 Oman 99.74
34 Suriname 99.58
35 New Caledonia 99.46
36 Botswana 99.34
37 Mongolia 99.24
38 Bahamas, The 99.13
39 Namibia 99.00
40 Kuwait 98.99
41 Libya 98.78
42 Congo, Republic of the 98.40
43 Somalia 98.32
44 Saudi Arabia 98.24
45 Gabon 98.15
46 Papua New Guinea 98.11
47 Qatar 98.09
48 Andorra 97.87
49 Faroe Islands 97.86
50 Turks and Caicos Islands 97.67
51 Guyana 97.63
52 Solomon Islands 97.34
53 Norway 97.30
54 Bhutan 97.27
55 Chad 97.18
56 Angola 97.12
57 Singapore 97.06
58 Brunei 97.05
59 Bolivia 97.03
60 United Arab Emirates 96.96
61 Chile 96.95
62 Yemen 96.84
63 Central African Republic 96.75
64 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 96.67
65 Peru 96.65
66 Colombia 96.62
67 Egypt 96.58
68 Algeria 96.55
69 Venezuela 96.27
70 Mali 96.21
71 Cayman Islands 96.15
72 Laos 95.65
73 Belize 95.56
74 Jordan 95.50
75 Turkmenistan 95.35
76 Eritrea 95.19
77 Canada 94.78
78 Tanzania 94.61
79 Liberia 94.59
80 Mozambique 94.28
81 Sweden 94.06
82 Madagascar 93.95
83 Hong Kong 93.94
84 Australia 93.81
85 French Polynesia 93.75
86 Finland 93.44
87 Kyrgyzstan 93.17
88 Sudan 93.05
89 Zambia 92.97
90 Guinea 92.89
91 Russia 92.72
92 Tajikistan 92.59
93 Paraguay 92.29
94 Brazil 92.18
95 Uruguay 91.99
96 Equatorial Guinea 91.80
97 Kazakhstan 91.67
98 Bahrain 91.55
99 Virgin Islands 91.43
100 Zimbabwe 91.43
101 Vanuatu 91.39
102 Kenya 91.02
103 Isle of Man 91.00
104 Sierra Leone 91.00
105 Panama 90.79
106 Puerto Rico 90.72
107 Slovenia 90.04
108 Curacao 90.00
109 Sint Maarten 90.00
110 Costa Rica 89.73
111 Argentina 89.61
112 Switzerland 89.51
113 Ecuador 89.48
114 Aruba 89.47
115 Ethiopia 89.34
116 Lesotho 89.00
117 Swaziland 88.94
118 Iran 88.93
119 Uzbekistan 88.73
120 Niger 88.56
121 Cape Verde 87.85
122 Afghanistan 87.66
123 Estonia 87.60
124 New Zealand 87.54
125 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 87.50
126 Japan 87.46
127 Honduras 87.26
128 Senegal 87.25
129 Timor-Leste 87.23
130 South Africa 87.11
131 Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha 87.10
132 Palau 86.95
133 Iraq 86.27
134 Mexico 86.06
135 Montenegro 85.30
136 Cameroon 84.94
137 Cyprus 84.87
138 Seychelles 84.79
139 Guinea-Bissau 84.77
140 Georgia 84.70
141 Fiji 84.40
142 China 83.87
143 Burma 83.77
144 Nicaragua 83.37
145 San Marino 83.33
146 Ireland 83.15
147 Nepal 83.08
148 Northern Mariana Islands 82.61
149 Austria 82.56
150 Burkina Faso 82.12
151 Indonesia 81.93
152 United States 81.78
153 Korea, South 81.41
154 Armenia 81.21
155 Guatemala 81.18
156 Israel 80.67
157 Bermuda 80.00
158 Montserrat 80.00
159 Morocco 79.00
160 Cambodia 78.97
161 Cote d’Ivoire 78.61
162 Bosnia and Herzegovina 78.50
163 Malawi 78.14
164 Saint Kitts and Nevis 77.78
165 Antigua and Barbuda 77.27
166 Netherlands 77.27
167 Malaysia 77.00
168 Azerbaijan 76.77
169 United Kingdom 76.57
170 Trinidad and Tobago 76.22
171 Macedonia 76.20
172 Korea, North 75.94
173 Albania 75.69
174 American Samoa 75.00
175 Cook Islands 75.00
176 Liechtenstein 75.00
177 Taiwan 75.00
178 Portugal 74.87
179 Pakistan 74.72
180 Jamaica 74.16
181 Benin 74.10
182 British Virgin Islands 73.33
183 Ghana 73.24
184 Niue 73.08
185 Vietnam 72.93
186 Belarus 72.63
187 Dominica 72.00
188 Croatia 71.99
189 Belgium 71.89
190 Luxembourg 71.89
191 Gambia, The 71.68
192 Latvia 71.36
193 Saint Lucia 70.97
194 Greece 70.96
195 Sri Lanka 70.80
196 Syria 70.73
197 Lebanon 69.90
198 Tunisia 69.87
199 Uganda 69.51
200 Bulgaria 68.16
201 Slovakia 68.10
202 Dominican Republic 67.25
203 Turkey 66.80
204 Tuvalu 66.67
205 Germany 66.27
206 Cuba 65.83
207 Malta 65.62
208 Thailand 65.53
209 Tonga 65.33
210 Grenada 64.71
211 France 64.51
212 Italy 64.50
213 Philippines 64.33
214 West Bank 64.13
215 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 64.10
216 Nigeria 63.84
217 Spain 62.97
218 Barbados 60.46
219 Haiti 60.36
220 Poland 58.75
221 Romania 58.59
222 Czech Republic 58.18
223 Wallis and Futuna 57.15
224 El Salvador 56.75
225 Maldives 56.67
226 Bangladesh 55.39
227 Samoa 54.57
228 Moldova 54.52
229 Lithuania 54.29
230 Ukraine 53.80
231 Togo 53.69
232 Denmark 52.59
233 Burundi 51.31
234 Gaza Strip 50.00
235 Hungary 49.58
236 Kiribati 49.31
237 Mauritius 49.02
238 Sao Tome and Principe 48.96
239 India 48.83
240 Micronesia, Federated States of 48.58
241 India 48.37
242 Hungary 48.36
243 Mauritius 48.04
244 Kiribati 47.95
245 Denmark 47.22
246 Micronesia, Federated States of 45.71
247 Rwanda 45.56
248 Lithuania 44.81
249 Ukraine 44.70
250 Marshall Islands 44.45
251 Marshall Islands 44.44
252 Togo 44.20
253 Rwanda 44.19
254 Sao Tome and Principe 42.71
255 Bangladesh 41.53
256 Comoros 40.81
257 Poland 40.25
258 Romania 39.49
259 Czech Republic 38.82
260 Barbados 37.21
261 Moldova 36.67
262 Comoros 35.87
263 Wallis and Futuna 35.71
264 Burundi 35.57
265 France 33.46
266 Tuvalu 33.33
267 Germany 33.13
268 Nigeria 33.02
269 El Salvador 31.37
270 Malta 31.25
271 Maldives 30.00
272 Bulgaria 29.94
273 Turkey 29.81
274 Grenada 29.41
275 Slovakia 29.23
276 Gaza Strip 29.00
277 Latvia 28.19
278 Haiti 28.11
279 Gambia, The 27.88
280 Cuba 27.63
281 Thailand 27.54
282 Belgium 27.42
283 Luxembourg 27.42
284 Spain 27.18
285 Belarus 26.77
286 Italy 26.41
287 Croatia 25.82
288 Liechtenstein 25.00
289 Syria 24.80
290 Pakistan 24.44
291 Samoa 24.30
292 Taiwan 24.00
293 Benin 23.53
294 Comoros 23.32
295 United Kingdom 23.23
296 Saint Lucia 22.58
297 Dominican Republic 22.49
298 Korea, North 22.40
299 Macedonia 22.01
300 Netherlands 21.96
301 Uganda 21.57
302 Dominica 21.33
303 Samoa 21.13
304 Gaza Strip 21.00
305 Malawi 20.68
306 Azerbaijan 20.62
307 Greece 20.45
308 Cambodia 20.44
309 Vietnam 20.14
310 Albania 20.10
311 Bermuda 20.00
312 British Virgin Islands 20.00
313 Montserrat 20.00
314 Tonga 20.00
315 Bosnia and Herzegovina 19.61
316 Saint Kitts and Nevis 19.44
317 Morocco 19.00
318 Philippines 19.00
319 West Bank 18.97
320 Antigua and Barbuda 18.18
321 United States 18.01
322 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 17.95
323 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 17.95
324 Burkina Faso 17.66
325 Ghana 17.54
326 Malaysia 17.54
327 Portugal 17.29
328 Tunisia 17.05
329 West Bank 16.90
330 Ireland 16.82
331 Armenia 16.78
332 Cook Islands 16.67
333 San Marino 16.67
334 Philippines 16.67
335 Austria 16.59
336 Korea, South 16.58
337 Lebanon 16.35
338 Nepal 16.07
339 Jamaica 15.83
340 Israel 15.45
341 Niue 15.38
342 Sri Lanka 15.24
343 American Samoa 15.00
344 Burma 14.92
345 China 14.86
346 Nicaragua 14.81
347 Tonga 14.67
348 Trinidad and Tobago 14.62
349 Sri Lanka 13.96
350 Lebanon 13.75
351 Montenegro 13.70
352 Maldives 13.33
353 Guatemala 13.22
354 Burundi 13.12
355 Iraq 13.12
356 Tunisia 13.08
357 Northern Mariana Islands 13.04
358 Seychelles 13.04
359 Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha 12.90
360 Mexico 12.66
361 Cameroon 12.54
362 Senegal 12.51
363 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 12.50
364 Afghanistan 12.13
365 South Africa 12.10
366 Estonia 12.05
367 El Salvador 11.88
368 Japan 11.64
369 Niue 11.54
370 Haiti 11.53
371 Georgia 11.51
372 Niger 11.43
373 Cape Verde 11.41
374 Cote d’Ivoire 11.16
375 Marshall Islands 11.11
376 Indonesia 11.03
377 Fiji 10.95
378 Lesotho 10.87
379 Cyprus 10.81
380 Aruba 10.53
381 Uzbekistan 10.51
382 Dominican Republic 10.26
383 Rwanda 10.25
384 Swaziland 10.25
385 Cote d’Ivoire 10.23
386 Argentina 10.03
387 Ethiopia 10.01
388 Jamaica 10.01
389 American Samoa 10.00
390 Sint Maarten 10.00
391 Curacao 10.00
392 Switzerland 9.91
393 Spain 9.85
394 Iran 9.78
395 Honduras 9.53
396 Ghana 9.22
397 Trinidad and Tobago 9.16
398 Italy 9.09
399 Isle of Man 9.00
400 Uganda 8.92
401 Moldova 8.81
402 Palau 8.70
403 Greece 8.59
404 Slovenia 8.53
405 Cook Islands 8.33
406 Sao Tome and Principe 8.33
407 Guinea-Bissau 8.31
408 Kazakhstan 8.28
409 Zimbabwe 8.24
410 Timor-Leste 8.20
411 Kenya 8.01
412 Sierra Leone 7.95
413 Portugal 7.84
414 Uruguay 7.77
415 Paraguay 7.47
416 Panama 7.26
417 Russia 7.17
418 Wallis and Futuna 7.14
419 Indonesia 7.04
420 Zambia 6.99
421 Vanuatu 6.97
422 Brazil 6.93
423 Vietnam 6.93
424 Thailand 6.93
425 Guinea-Bissau 6.92
426 New Zealand 6.92
427 Sudan 6.78
428 British Virgin Islands 6.67
429 Dominica 6.67
430 Kyrgyzstan 6.55
431 Cuba 6.54
432 Finland 6.54
433 Tajikistan 6.52
434 Saint Lucia 6.45
435 Australia 6.15
436 Sweden 5.93
437 Grenada 5.88
438 Costa Rica 5.87
439 Ecuador 5.71
440 Virgin Islands 5.71
441 Micronesia, Federated States of 5.71
442 Bahrain 5.63
443 Guatemala 5.60
444 Puerto Rico 5.59
445 New Zealand 5.54
446 French Polynesia 5.50
447 Malaysia 5.46
448 Mozambique 5.43
449 Hong Kong 5.05
450 Madagascar 5.03
451 Ecuador 4.81
452 Eritrea 4.78
453 Fiji 4.65
454 Equatorial Guinea 4.63
455 Canada 4.57
456 Timor-Leste 4.57
457 Antigua and Barbuda 4.55
458 Turkmenistan 4.51
459 Guinea 4.47
460 Syria 4.47
461 Costa Rica 4.40
462 Northern Mariana Islands 4.35
463 Palau 4.35
464 Cyprus 4.32
465 Tanzania 4.23
466 Albania 4.21
467 Laos 4.01
468 Israel 3.88
469 Cayman Islands 3.85
470 Georgia 3.79
471 Mali 3.76
472 Puerto Rico 3.69
473 Equatorial Guinea 3.57
474 Liberia 3.43
475 Turkey 3.39
476 Jordan 3.32
477 Honduras 3.21
478 Algeria 3.17
479 Nigeria 3.14
480 Malta 3.13
481 Central African Republic 3.10
482 Bangladesh 3.08
483 Belize 3.05
484 Czech Republic 3.00
485 Mauritius 2.94
486 Egypt 2.92
487 Yemen 2.91
488 Peru 2.88
489 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 2.86
490 Virgin Islands 2.86
491 Venezuela 2.85
492 Bahrain 2.82
493 Chad 2.80
494 India 2.80
495 Bolivia 2.78
496 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.78
497 Kiribati 2.74
498 Norway 2.70
499 Slovakia 2.67
500 Angola 2.65
501 Guinea 2.64
502 Chile 2.62
503 Azerbaijan 2.61
504 Cameroon 2.52
505 Benin 2.37
506 Barbados 2.33
507 Turks and Caicos Islands 2.33
508 Bhutan 2.30
509 United Arab Emirates 2.27
510 Guyana 2.23
511 Croatia 2.19
512 Seychelles 2.17
513 Faroe Islands 2.14
514 Andorra 2.13
515 Togo 2.11
516 Brunei 2.08
517 Hungary 2.06
518 Solomon Islands 2.04
519 France 2.03
520 Armenia 2.01
521 Korea, South 2.01
522 Colombia 2.01
523 Morocco 2.00
524 Liberia 1.98
525 Panama 1.95
526 Romania 1.92
527 Bulgaria 1.90
528 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.89
529 Nicaragua 1.82
530 Macedonia 1.79
531 Saudi Arabia 1.67
532 Korea, North 1.66
533 Qatar 1.64
534 Vanuatu 1.64
535 Somalia 1.64
536 Ukraine 1.50
537 Singapore 1.47
538 Singapore 1.47
539 Congo, Republic of the 1.45
540 Slovenia 1.43
541 Papua New Guinea 1.40
542 Belize 1.39
543 Colombia 1.37
544 Burma 1.31
545 Iran 1.29
546 Mexico 1.28
547 China 1.27
548 Gabon 1.21
549 Jordan 1.18
550 Malawi 1.18
551 Tanzania 1.16
552 Sierra Leone 1.05
553 Libya 1.03
554 Madagascar 1.02
555 Hong Kong 1.01
556 Montenegro 1.00
557 Poland 1.00
558 Taiwan 1.00
559 Namibia 0.99
560 Kenya 0.97
561 Japan 0.90
562 Lithuania 0.90
563 Brazil 0.89
564 Tajikistan 0.89
565 Venezuela 0.88
566 Brunei 0.87
567 Austria 0.85
568 Nepal 0.85
569 Kuwait 0.84
570 Pakistan 0.84
571 Swaziland 0.81
572 South Africa 0.79
573 Netherlands 0.77
574 United Arab Emirates 0.77
575 Mongolia 0.76
576 Uzbekistan 0.76
577 French Polynesia 0.75
578 Cape Verde 0.74
579 Belgium 0.69
580 Luxembourg 0.69
581 Botswana 0.65
582 Canada 0.65
583 Ethiopia 0.65
584 Gabon 0.64
585 Solomon Islands 0.62
586 Iraq 0.61
587 Belarus 0.60
588 Germany 0.60
589 Cambodia 0.59
590 Bahamas, The 0.58
591 Switzerland 0.58
592 Egypt 0.50
593 Papua New Guinea 0.49
594 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 0.47
595 Peru 0.47
596 Latvia 0.45
597 Gambia, The 0.44
598 Bhutan 0.43
599 Chile 0.43
600 Argentina 0.36
601 Suriname 0.36
602 Estonia 0.35
603 Laos 0.34
604 Zimbabwe 0.33
605 New Caledonia 0.32
606 Bahamas, The 0.29
607 Mozambique 0.29
608 Algeria 0.28
609 Kyrgyzstan 0.28
610 Qatar 0.27
611 Yemen 0.25
612 Paraguay 0.24
613 Uruguay 0.24
614 Senegal 0.24
615 Angola 0.23
616 Burkina Faso 0.22
617 New Caledonia 0.22
618 Afghanistan 0.21
619 United States 0.21
620 Mauritania 0.20
621 United Kingdom 0.20
622 Bolivia 0.19
623 Libya 0.19
624 Denmark 0.19
625 Kuwait 0.17
626 Sudan 0.17
627 Central African Republic 0.15
628 Congo, Republic of the 0.15
629 Guyana 0.14
630 Turkmenistan 0.14
631 Oman 0.14
632 Lesotho 0.13
633 Oman 0.12
634 Russia 0.11
635 Saudi Arabia 0.09
636 Iceland 0.07
637 Suriname 0.06
638 Kazakhstan 0.05
639 Australia 0.04
640 Zambia 0.04
641 Somalia 0.04
642 Djibouti 0.04
643 Eritrea 0.03
644 Mali 0.03
645 Ireland 0.03
646 Chad 0.02
647 Finland 0.02
648 Western Sahara 0.02
649 Botswana 0.01
650 Mauritania 0.01
651 Namibia 0.01
652 Niger 0.01
653 Sweden 0.01
654 Andorra 0.00
655 Antarctica 0.00
656 Bouvet Island 0.00
657 Wake Island 0.00
658 Wake Island 0.00
659 United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges 0.00
660 United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges 0.00
661 Tuvalu 0.00
662 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.00
663 Tokelau 0.00
664 Tokelau 0.00
665 Spratly Islands 0.00
666 Western Sahara 0.00
667 Spratly Islands 0.00
668 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands 0.00
669 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands 0.00
670 Sint Maarten 0.00
671 San Marino 0.00
672 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.00
673 Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha 0.00
674 Paracel Islands 0.00
675 Svalbard 0.00
676 Svalbard 0.00
677 Paracel Islands 0.00
678 Norway 0.00
679 Norfolk Island 0.00
680 Norfolk Island 0.00
681 Navassa Island 0.00
682 Navassa Island 0.00
683 Nauru 0.00
684 Nauru 0.00
685 Montserrat 0.00
686 Mongolia 0.00
687 Monaco 0.00
688 Monaco 0.00
689 Macau 0.00
690 Macau 0.00
691 Liechtenstein 0.00
692 Jan Mayen 0.00
693 Jan Mayen 0.00
694 Isle of Man 0.00
695 Iceland 0.00
696 Holy See (Vatican City) 0.00
697 Holy See (Vatican City) 0.00
698 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0.00
699 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0.00
700 Greenland 0.00
701 Jersey 0.00
702 Jersey 0.00
703 Gibraltar 0.00
704 Gibraltar 0.00
705 Faroe Islands 0.00
706 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 0.00
707 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 0.00
708 Djibouti 0.00
709 Curacao 0.00
710 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 0.00
711 Greenland 0.00
712 Clipperton Island 0.00
713 Clipperton Island 0.00
714 Christmas Island 0.00
715 Christmas Island 0.00
716 Cayman Islands 0.00
717 British Indian Ocean Territory 0.00
718 British Indian Ocean Territory 0.00
719 Bouvet Island 0.00
720 Coral Sea Islands 0.00
721 Coral Sea Islands 0.00
722 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 0.00
723 Ashmore and Cartier Islands 0.00
724 Bermuda 0.00
725 Ashmore and Cartier Islands 0.00
726 Aruba 0.00
727 Antarctica 0.00
728 Anguilla 0.00
729 Anguilla 0.00



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