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Arable land in Africa

Arable land in Africa: latest available values for 54 countries, observation years, World Bank source and CSV export. The figures below come from prepared World Bank datasets. Every row shows its year; missing data is never replaced with an estimate.

Coverage : 54/54 countries · Source code : AG.LND.ARBL.ZS · Retrieved : 2026-10-20

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Values by country

Arable land · Latest available observation, with each country’s actual year
CountryArable landYearSource
Algeria3.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Angola3.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Benin32.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Botswana0.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Burkina Faso28.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Burundi43.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Cabo Verde18 %2024World Bank WDI
Cameroon13.1 %2024World Bank WDI
Central African Republic2.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Chad4.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Comoros29.6 %2024World Bank WDI
Congo, Rep.1.6 %2024World Bank WDI
Côte d’Ivoire15.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Djibouti0.2 %2024World Bank WDI
DR Congo7.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Egypt3.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Equatorial Guinea1.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Eritrea5.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Eswatini10.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Ethiopia14.6 %2024World Bank WDI
Gabon1.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Ghana20.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Guinea24.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Guinea-Bissau16.1 %2024World Bank WDI
Kenya11.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Lesotho19 %2024World Bank WDI
Liberia5.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Libya1 %2024World Bank WDI
Madagascar5.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Malawi42.4 %2024World Bank WDI
Mali5.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Mauritania0.4 %2024World Bank WDI
Mauritius35.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Morocco15.8 %2024World Bank WDI
Mozambique10.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Namibia1 %2024World Bank WDI
Niger14 %2024World Bank WDI
Nigeria40.8 %2024World Bank WDI
Rwanda48.9 %2024World Bank WDI
São Tomé and Príncipe4.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Senegal19.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Seychelles0.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Sierra Leone21.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Somalia1.8 %2024World Bank WDI
South Africa9.9 %2024World Bank WDI
South Sudan3.8 %2024World Bank WDI
Sudan11.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Tanzania15.5 %2024World Bank WDI
The Gambia58.1 %2024World Bank WDI
Togo48.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Tunisia17.8 %2024World Bank WDI
Uganda43.6 %2024World Bank WDI
Zambia5.1 %2024World Bank WDI
Zimbabwe10.4 %2024World Bank WDI

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