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TABLE A5
LAND USE

 

Total land area

Forest and wood area

Agricultural area

Agricultural area per capita

Arable land

Permanent crops

Permanent pasture

Irrigated area

Fertilizer consumption

(Thousand
ha)

(Thousand
ha)

(Thousand
ha)

(ha/person)

(% of agricultural area)

(% of agricultural area)

(% of agricultural area)

(% of arable + permanent crops area)

(kg/ha arable land)

2001

2000

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

WORLD

13 041 038

3 868 796

5 016 729

0.82

27.9

2.6

69.5

17.8

98.3

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

5 382 812

1 720 221

1 743 778

1.36

34.3

1.3

64.4

10.7

84.0

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

7 658 226

2 148 575

3 272 951

0.67

24.5

3.3

72.2

22.7

109.0

 

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

2 014 355

511 796

1 029 003

0.32

39.8

5.2

55.0

33.2

163.2

American Samoa

20

12

5

0.07

40.0

60.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Bangladesh

13 017

1 334

9 085

0.06

89.0

4.4

6.6

52.1

167.6

Bhutan

4 700

3 016

580

0.27

25.0

3.4

71.6

24.2

0.0

British Virgin Islands

15

3

9

0.38

33.3

11.1

55.6

0.0

0.0

Brunei Darussalam

527

442

13

0.04

23.1

30.8

46.2

14.3

0.0

Cambodia

17 652

9 335

5 307

0.39

69.7

2.0

28.3

7.1

0.0

China, Hong Kong SAR

99

...

7

0.00

71.4

14.3

14.3

33.3

0.0

China, Macao SAR

2

...

...

0.00

...

...

...

...

...

China, Mainland

929 100

163 480

554 420

0.44

25.8

2.1

72.1

35.1

244.8

China, Taiwan Province of

3 541

...

849

0.04

73.0

27.0

0.0

68.3

681.9

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

1

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

Cook Islands

23

22

7

0.35

57.1

42.9

0.0

0.0

0.0

Fiji Islands

1 827

815

460

0.56

43.5

18.5

38.0

1.1

50.0

French Polynesia

366

105

43

0.18

7.0

46.5

46.5

4.3

400.0

Guam

55

21

22

0.14

22.7

40.9

36.4

0.0

0.0

India

297 319

64 113

180 810

0.18

89.5

4.5

6.0

32.3

107.6

Indonesia

181 157

104 986

44 777

0.21

45.8

29.3

25.0

14.3

123.1

Kiribati

73

28

39

0.46

5.1

94.9

0.0

0.0

0.0

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

12 041

8 210

2 850

0.13

87.7

10.5

1.8

52.1

114.8

Korea, Republic of

9 873

6 248

1 943

0.04

87.3

9.9

2.8

60.6

422.6

Lao People's Dem. Rep. of

23 080

12 561

1 836

0.34

47.8

4.4

47.8

18.3

14.0

Malaysia

32 855

19 292

7 870

0.35

22.9

73.5

3.6

4.8

628.2

Maldives

30

1

10

0.03

40.0

50.0

10.0

0.0

0.0

Marshall Islands

18

...

14

0.27

21.4

50.0

28.6

0.0

0.0

Micronesia, Federated States of

70

15

47

0.37

8.5

68.1

23.4

0.0

0.0

Mongolia

156 650

10 645

130 500

51.00

0.9

0.0

99.1

7.0

2.7

Myanmar

65 755

34 419

10 939

0.23

91.3

5.8

2.9

18.7

16.4

Northern Mariana Islands

46

14

13

0.17

46.2

15.4

38.5

0.0

0.0

Nauru

2

...

...

0.00

...

...

...

...

...

Nepal

14 300

3 900

4 949

0.21

62.6

1.9

35.5

35.6

22.7

New Caledonia

1 828

372

229

1.04

3.1

2.6

94.3

0.0

128.6

Niue

26

6

8

4.00

50.0

37.5

12.5

0.0

0.0

Norfolk Island

4

...

1

...

0.0

0.0

100.0

...

...

Pakistan

77 088

2 361

27 160

0.19

79.1

2.5

18.4

80.4

136.0

Palau

46

35

9

0.45

44.4

22.2

33.3

0.0

0.0

Papua New Guinea

45 286

30 601

1 035

0.21

20.3

62.8

16.9

0.0

56.2

Philippines

29 817

5 789

11 930

0.15

47.4

41.9

10.7

14.6

138.3

Samoa

283

105

131

0.82

45.8

52.7

1.5

0.0

81.7

Singapore

61

2

1

0.00

100.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

2353.0

Solomon Islands

2 799

2 536

114

0.25

15.8

49.1

35.1

0.0

0.0

Sri Lanka

6 463

1 940

2 351

0.12

38.1

43.2

18.7

31.2

261.7

Thailand

51 089

14 762

19 100

0.30

78.5

17.3

4.2

26.9

114.5

Timor-Leste

1 487

...

230

0.31

30.4

4.3

65.2

0.0

0.0

Tokelau

1

...

...

0.00

...

...

...

...

...

Tonga

72

4

52

0.53

32.7

59.6

7.7

0.0

0.0

Tuvalu

3

...

...

0.00

...

...

...

...

...

Vanuatu

1 219

447

162

0.80

18.5

55.6

25.9

0.0

0.0

Viet Nam

32 549

9 819

9 080

0.11

71.6

21.3

7.1

35.6

307.6

Wallis and Futuna Islands

20

...

6

0.40

16.7

83.3

0.0

0.0

0.0

 

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

2 017 772

964 355

784 197

1.49

19.0

2.6

78.4

11.0

84.8

Antigua and Barbuda

44

9

14

0.22

57.1

14.3

28.6

0.0

0.0

Argentina

273 669

34 648

177 000

4.72

19.0

0.7

80.2

4.5

25.5

Aruba

19

...

2

0.02

100.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Bahamas

1 001

842

14

0.05

57.1

28.6

14.3

8.3

100.0

Barbados

43

2

19

0.07

84.2

5.3

10.5

5.9

187.5

Belize

2 280

1 348

154

0.67

42.2

25.3

32.5

2.9

72.3

Bermuda

5

...

1

0.02

100.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

100.0

Bolivia

108 438

53 068

36 931

4.34

7.9

0.5

91.6

4.3

4.2

Brazil

845 651

543 905

263 465

1.53

22.3

2.9

74.8

4.4

115.1

Cayman Islands

26

13

3

0.08

33.3

0.0

66.7

0.0

0.0

Chile

74 880

15 536

15 235

0.99

13.0

2.1

84.9

82.6

242.7

Colombia

103 870

49 601

46 049

1.08

5.5

3.8

90.8

21.2

254.5

Costa Rica

5 106

1 968

2 865

0.70

7.9

10.5

81.7

20.6

568.7

Cuba

10 982

2 348

6 665

0.59

54.5

12.5

33.0

19.5

55.3

Dominica

75

46

22

0.31

22.7

68.2

9.1

0.0

600.0

Dominican Republic

4 838

1 376

3 696

0.43

29.7

13.5

56.8

17.2

89.5

Ecuador

27 684

10 557

8 075

0.63

20.1

16.9

63.0

29.0

142.3

El Salvador

2 072

121

1 704

0.27

38.7

14.7

46.6

4.9

110.9

Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

1 217

...

1 130

565.00

0.0

0.0

100.0

...

...

French Guiana

8 815

7 926

23

0.14

52.2

17.4

30.4

12.5

100.0

Grenada

34

5

13

0.14

15.4

76.9

7.7

0.0

0.0

Guadeloupe

169

82

48

0.11

39.6

12.5

47.9

24.0

1015.8

Guatemala

10 843

2 850

4 507

0.39

30.2

12.1

57.7

6.8

134.5

Guyana

19 685

16 879

1 740

2.28

27.6

1.7

70.7

29.4

27.1

Haiti

2 756

88

1 590

0.19

49.1

20.1

30.8

6.8

17.9

Honduras

11 189

5 383

2 936

0.45

36.4

12.3

51.4

5.6

141.9

Jamaica

1 083

325

513

0.20

33.9

21.4

44.6

8.8

67.2

Martinique

106

47

33

0.09

33.3

30.3

36.4

33.3

1609.1

Mexico

190 869

55 205

107 300

1.07

23.1

2.3

74.6

23.2

75.4

Montserrat

10

3

3

1.00

66.7

0.0

33.3

0.0

0.0

Netherlands Antilles

80

1

8

0.04

100.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Nicaragua

12 140

3 278

6 986

1.34

27.7

3.4

68.9

4.4

11.7

Panama

7 443

2 876

2 230

0.77

24.6

6.6

68.8

5.0

53.3

Paraguay

39 730

23 372

24 810

4.40

12.2

0.4

87.5

2.2

22.1

Peru

128 000

65 215

31 310

1.20

11.8

1.6

86.6

28.4

81.3

Puerto Rico

887

229

294

0.07

11.9

16.7

71.4

47.6

0.0

Saint Kitts and Nevis

36

4

10

0.26

70.0

10.0

20.0

0.0

242.9

Saint Lucia

61

9

20

0.13

20.0

70.0

10.0

16.7

1325.0

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

39

6

16

0.14

43.8

43.8

12.5

7.1

557.1

Suriname

15 600

14 113

88

0.21

64.8

11.4

23.9

76.1

98.2

Trinidad and Tobago

513

259

133

0.10

56.4

35.3

8.3

3.3

144.9

Turks and Caicos Islands

43

...

1

0.06

100.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Uruguay

17 502

1 292

14 883

4.43

8.7

0.3

91.0

13.5

92.0

US Virgin Islands

34

14

10

0.08

40.0

10.0

50.0

0.0

150.0

Venezuela

88 205

49 506

21 648

0.88

12.0

3.7

84.3

16.9

115.5

 

NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

1 263 233

28 820

454 982

1.12

18.9

2.6

78.5

28.5

70.9

Afghanistan

65 209

1 351

38 054

1.69

20.8

0.4

78.8

29.6

2.3

Algeria

238 174

2 145

40 052

1.30

19.1

1.5

79.4

6.8

13.7

Bahrain

71

...

10

0.02

20.0

40.0

40.0

66.7

150.0

Cyprus

924

172

117

0.15

61.5

35.0

3.4

35.4

315.5

Egypt

99 545

72

3 338

0.05

85.6

14.4

0.0

100.0

457.4

Iran, Islamic Republic of

163 620

7 299

60 548

0.85

23.6

3.8

72.7

45.3

92.5

Iraq

43 737

799

10 090

0.43

57.0

3.4

39.6

57.9

57.6

Jordan

8 893

86

1 142

0.23

20.8

14.3

65.0

20.0

94.3

Kuwait

1 782

5

151

0.08

8.6

1.3

90.1

86.7

80.5

Lebanon

1 023

36

329

0.09

51.7

43.5

4.9

33.2

321.1

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

175 954

358

15 450

2.86

11.7

2.2

86.1

21.9

30.9

Morocco

44 630

3 025

30 720

1.01

28.5

3.2

68.4

13.8

41.2

Oman

30 950

1

1 081

0.41

3.5

4.0

92.5

76.5

157.7

Palestine, Occupied Territory

618

...

358

...

30.4

33.0

41.9

10.6

0.0

Qatar

1 100

1

71

0.12

25.4

4.2

70.4

61.9

50.0

Saudi Arabia

214 969

1 504

173 794

8.26

2.1

0.1

97.8

42.7

106.6

Syrian Arab Republic

18 378

461

13 723

0.83

33.8

5.9

60.3

23.2

60.0

Tunisia

15 536

510

8 999

0.94

30.8

23.7

45.4

7.8

39.2

Turkey

76 963

10 225

38 733

0.57

61.5

6.6

32.0

17.1

70.1

United Arab Emirates

8 360

321

543

0.20

9.2

34.6

56.2

31.9

700.0

Yemen

52 797

449

17 660

0.92

8.3

0.7

91.0

31.3

11.1

 

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

2 362 866

643 604

1 004 769

1.51

15.8

2.2

82.1

3.7

12.6

Angola

124 670

69 756

57 300

4.24

5.2

0.5

94.2

2.3

0.0

Benin

11 062

2 650

2 815

0.44

71.0

9.4

19.5

0.5

15.6

Botswana

56 673

12 427

25 973

16.71

1.4

0.0

98.6

0.3

12.4

Burkina Faso

27 360

7 089

10 000

0.84

39.5

0.5

60.0

0.6

8.2

Burundi

2 568

94

2 195

0.34

41.0

16.4

42.6

5.9

3.9

Cameroon

46 540

23 858

9 160

0.60

65.1

13.1

21.8

0.5

8.8

Cape Verde

403

85

66

0.15

59.1

3.0

37.9

7.3

2.6

Central African Republic

62 298

22 907

5 145

1.36

37.5

1.7

60.7

0.0

0.3

Chad

125 920

12 692

48 630

5.98

7.4

0.1

92.5

0.6

4.9

Comoros

223

8

147

0.20

54.4

35.4

10.2

0.0

3.8

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

226 705

135 207

22 880

0.44

29.3

5.2

65.6

0.1

0.2

Congo, Republic of the

34 150

22 060

10 220

3.29

1.7

0.4

97.8

0.5

28.6

Côte d'Ivoire

31 800

7 117

20 500

1.25

15.1

21.5

63.4

1.0

20.2

Djibouti

2 318

6

1 301

2.02

0.1

0.0

99.9

100.0

0.0

Equatorial Guinea

2 805

1 752

334

0.71

38.9

29.9

31.1

0.0

0.0

Eritrea

10 100

1 585

7 470

1.96

6.7

0.0

93.3

4.2

20.0

Ethiopia

100 000

4 593

31 462

0.49

34.0

2.4

63.6

1.7

12.6

Gabon

25 767

21 826

5 160

4.09

6.3

3.3

90.4

3.0

0.9

Gambia

1 000

481

714

0.53

35.0

0.7

64.3

0.8

3.2

Ghana

22 754

6 335

14 250

0.72

26.0

15.4

58.6

0.2

2.8

Guinea

24 572

6 929

12 225

1.48

7.3

5.2

87.5

6.2

3.6

Guinea-Bissau

2 812

2 187

1 628

1.33

18.4

15.2

66.3

3.1

8.0

Kenya

56 914

17 096

26 460

0.85

17.4

2.1

80.5

1.7

31.4

Lesotho

3 035

14

2 334

1.13

14.1

0.2

85.7

0.3

34.4

Liberia

9 632

3 481

2 600

0.84

14.6

8.5

76.9

0.5

0.0

Madagascar

58 154

11 727

27 550

1.68

10.7

2.2

87.1

30.7

2.3

Malawi

9 408

2 562

4 190

0.36

52.5

3.3

44.2

1.3

10.3

Mali

122 019

13 186

34 700

2.97

13.4

0.1

86.5

2.9

9.0

Mauritania

102 522

317

39 750

14.47

1.2

0.0

98.7

9.8

4.1

Mauritius

203

16

113

0.10

88.5

5.3

6.2

20.8

372.0

Mozambique

78 409

30 601

48 235

2.59

8.3

0.5

91.2

2.5

6.2

Namibia

82 329

8 040

38 820

21.71

2.1

0.0

97.9

0.9

0.4

Niger

126 670

1 328

16 500

1.47

27.2

0.1

72.7

1.5

1.1

Nigeria

91 077

13 517

70 400

0.60

40.5

3.8

55.7

0.7

7.8

Réunion

250

71

49

0.07

69.4

6.1

24.5

32.4

147.1

Rwanda

2 467

307

1 850

0.23

54.1

16.2

29.7

0.4

0.3

Saint Helena

31

2

12

2.00

33.3

0.0

66.7

0.0

0.0

Sao Tome and Principe

96

27

54

0.39

11.1

87.0

1.9

18.9

0.0

Senegal

19 253

6 205

8 150

0.84

30.2

0.5

69.3

2.8

16.2

Seychelles

45

30

7

0.09

14.3

85.7

0.0

0.0

20.0

Sierra Leone

7 162

1 055

2 764

0.60

18.1

2.3

79.6

5.3

0.6

Somalia

62 734

7 515

44 071

4.81

2.4

0.1

97.6

18.7

0.5

South Africa

122 104

8 917

99 640

2.28

14.8

1.0

84.2

9.5

50.1

Sudan

237 600

61 627

133 833

4.21

12.1

0.3

87.6

11.7

4.9

Swaziland

1 720

522

1 390

1.48

12.8

0.9

86.3

36.8

39.3

Tanzania, United Republic of

88 359

38 811

39 950

1.11

10.0

2.4

87.6

3.4

5.6

Togo

5 439

510

3 630

0.78

69.1

3.3

27.5

0.7

7.6

Uganda

19 710

4 190

12 312

0.51

41.4

17.1

41.5

0.1

1.1

Zambia

74 339

31 246

35 280

3.31

14.9

0.1

85.0

0.9

6.9

Zimbabwe

38 685

19 040

20 550

1.60

15.7

0.6

83.7

3.5

47.3

 

DEVELOPED MARKET ECONOMIES

3 070 589

783 052

1 110 147

1.27

31.7

1.4

66.9

11.3

121.3

Andorra

45

...

26

0.29

3.8

0.0

96.2

0.0

0.0

Australia

768 230

154 539

455 500

23.55

11.0

0.1

88.9

4.7

49.0

Austria

8 273

3 886

3 390

0.42

41.3

2.1

56.6

0.3

162.1

Belgium/Luxembourg

3 282

728

1 544

0.14

54.5

1.6

43.9

4.6

343.2

Canada

922 097

244 571

74 880

2.41

61.1

0.2

38.7

1.6

52.2

Denmark

4 243

455

2 676

0.50

85.7

0.3

14.1

19.4

138.3

Faeroe Islands

140

...

3

0.06

100.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Finland

30 459

21 935

2 219

0.43

98.7

0.4

0.9

2.9

135.6

France

55 010

15 341

29 631

0.50

62.3

3.8

33.9

13.3

226.5

Germany

34 895

10 740

17 033

0.21

69.4

1.2

29.4

4.0

221.1

Gibraltar

1

...

...

0.00

...

...

...

...

...

Greece

12 890

3 599

8 502

0.80

32.0

13.3

54.7

37.1

154.4

Greenland

41 045

...

235

4.20

0.0

0.0

100.0

...

...

Iceland

10 025

31

2 281

8.12

0.3

0.0

99.7

0.0

3 028.6

Ireland

6 889

659

4 399

1.15

23.8

0.0

76.2

0.0

547.3

Israel

2 062

132

566

0.09

59.7

15.2

25.1

45.8

263.3

Italy

29 411

10 003

15 355

0.27

53.2

18.3

28.5

24.6

205.7

Japan

36 450

24 081

5 199

0.04

85.5

6.7

7.8

54.8

304.6

Liechtenstein

16

7

9

0.27

44.4

0.0

55.6

0.0

0.0

Malta

32

...

10

0.03

90.0

10.0

0.0

20.0

77.8

Monaco

...

...

...

0.00

...

...

...

...

...

Netherlands

3 388

375

1 931

0.12

46.9

1.7

51.4

60.2

451.9

New Zealand

26 799

7 946

17 235

4.53

8.7

10.9

80.4

8.5

592.8

Norway

30 683

8 868

1 042

0.23

84.5

0.0

15.5

14.4

217.0

Portugal

9 150

3 666

4 142

0.41

48.0

17.3

34.7

24.0

114.6

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

23

...

3

0.43

100.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

San Marino

6

...

1

0.04

100.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

390.0

Spain

49 944

14 370

29 398

0.74

44.3

16.8

38.9

20.4

167.7

Sweden

41 162

27 134

3 144

0.36

85.7

0.1

14.2

4.3

106.5

Switzerland

3 955

1 199

1 580

0.22

26.1

1.5

72.4

5.7

221.9

United Kingdom

24 088

2 794

16 954

0.28

33.3

0.3

66.4

1.9

337.8

United States of America

915 896

225 993

411 259

1.44

42.6

0.5

56.9

12.7

111.9

 

COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION

2 312 223

937 169

633 631

1.54

38.9

1.1

60.0

9.8

30.7

Albania

2 740

991

1 139

0.36

50.7

10.6

38.6

48.6

32.4

Armenia

2 820

351

1 360

0.36

36.4

4.8

58.8

51.3

10.1

Azerbaijan

8 660

1 094

4 535

0.56

37.5

5.2

57.3

75.2

7.0

Belarus

20 748

9 402

9 250

0.91

66.3

1.3

32.4

2.1

127.2

Bosnia and Herzegovina

5 073

2 273

1 850

0.45

37.3

8.1

64.9

0.4

47.2

Bulgaria

11 055

3 690

6 251

0.79

70.8

3.4

25.8

17.3

35.4

Croatia

5 592

1 783

3 149

0.68

46.3

4.0

49.6

0.3

147.5

Czech Republic

7 728

2 632

4 278

0.42

71.9

5.5

22.6

0.7

128.3

Estonia

4 227

2 060

890

0.65

76.2

2.1

21.7

0.6

62.3

Georgia

6 949

2 988

3 003

0.57

26.5

8.9

64.6

44.1

52.8

Hungary

9 211

1 840

5 865

0.59

78.7

3.2

18.1

4.8

70.0

Kazakhstan

269 970

12 148

206 769

12.85

10.4

0.1

89.5

10.8

2.3

Kyrgyzstan

19 180

1 003

10 758

2.16

13.0

0.6

86.4

73.1

5.0

Latvia

6 205

2 923

2 480

1.03

74.2

1.2

24.6

1.1

34.8

Lithuania

6 480

1 994

3 487

0.95

84.0

1.7

14.3

0.2

55.3

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of

2 543

906

1 242

0.61

45.6

3.7

50.7

9.0

53.5

Moldova, Republic of

3 291

325

2 559

0.60

71.1

13.9

15.0

14.1

2.8

Poland

30 435

9 047

18 392

0.48

76.0

1.8

22.2

0.7

111.4

Romania

23 034

6 448

14 852

0.66

63.3

3.5

33.2

31.1

34.8

Russian Federation

1 688 850

851 392

216 861

1.50

57.1

0.9

42.0

3.7

12.9

Serbia-Montenegro

10 200

2 887

5 592

0.53

60.8

5.8

33.3

0.8

78.2

Slovakia

4 808

2 177

2 450

0.45

59.2

5.1

35.7

11.6

82.6

Slovenia

2 012

1 107

510

0.26

33.9

5.9

60.2

1.5

418.9

Tajikistan

14 060

400

4 560

0.74

20.4

2.9

76.8

67.8

13.0

Turkmenistan

46 993

3 755

32 515

6.72

5.4

0.2

94.4

99.2

66.9

Ukraine

57 935

9 584

41 404

0.84

78.6

2.2

19.1

7.2

14.6

Uzbekistan

41 424

1 969

27 630

1.09

16.2

1.2

82.5

88.6

154.6




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