Dataset
Agricultural land use per person
owid.total-agricultural-land-use-per-person
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About
Total agricultural land per person for each separate country over time.
Cite as: HYDE (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Land use (per capita): Agriculture” [dataset]. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, “History Database of the Global Environment 3.5” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- not stated
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- irregular
- Last modified
- 2026-06-08
- Units
- hectares per person
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-agricultural-land-use-per-person
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| agriculture_c_per_capita | number | Land use (per capita): Agriculture (hectares per person) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |