Arable land percentage data tracks land used for temporary crops, meadows, gardens, and fallow land, as defined by the FAO. The dataset is compiled by the World Bank's World Development Indicators organization. It provides a standardized metric for comparing agricultural land use across countries and over time.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in 'arable land (% of land area)' over time to model agricultural capacity changes.
- Compare 'arable land (% of land area)' values across countries to assess relative agricultural land use intensity.
- Correlate changes in 'arable land (% of land area)' with other development indicators to study environmental or economic impacts.
- Use the FAO-defined 'arable land' metric as a baseline for regional land-use planning and sustainability assessments.
Strengths
- Provides a standardized FAO metric for consistent international comparison.
- Compiled by a major international organization (World Bank) ensuring authoritative sourcing.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- The definition excludes land abandoned from shifting cultivation, which may limit analysis in certain regions.
- Update frequency and recency of the data are unspecified.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank World Development Indicators
- Collection Method
- Data compiled based on FAO definitions and national statistics.
- Geography
- Global, country-level