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Guinea-Bissau vs Lesotho: Arable land

Guinea-Bissau
395,530 hectares
in 2023
Lesotho
356,748 hectares
in 2023
Guinea-Bissau rank
131st
Lesotho rank
133rd

Arable land over time

  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Lesotho
200.0k300.0k400.0k196119922023

How they compare

Guinea-Bissau currently reports 395,530 hectares against 356,748 hectares in Lesotho, a difference of 38,782 hectares.

That makes Guinea-Bissau's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Lesotho ahead.

Globally, Guinea-Bissau ranks 131st and Lesotho ranks 133rd of 206 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Arable land (hectares)
Unit
hectares
Source
FAO electronic files and web site, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
206 places, 11,871 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

Arable land (in hectares) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.