What is the highest arable land recorded in Brunei?

The highest recorded value was 0.0518 hectares per person in 1966.

What is the lowest arable land recorded in Brunei?

The lowest recorded value was 0.0087 hectares per person in 2023.

How does Brunei rank for arable land?

Brunei ranks 190th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.

Is arable land rising or falling in Brunei?

Over the last ten years it is down 10.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.

Arable land in Brunei

Name: Arable land in Brunei
Creator: 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)
License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Brunei: Arable land was 0.0087 hectares per person in 2023. ◆ Volatile

Latest (2023)

0.0087 hectares per person

Change on year

down 0.8%

World rank

190th

of 206 countries

All-time high

0.0518 hectares per person

in 1966

All-time low

0.0087 hectares per person

in 2023

Years of data

1961–2023

Arable land in Brunei, 1961–2023

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). Measured in hectares per person.

Analysis

Brunei recorded 0.0087 hectares per person for arable land in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 63 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.8% on the previous year and down 10.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, arable land in Brunei peaked at 0.0518 hectares per person in 1966 and was at its lowest, 0.0087 hectares per person, in 2023.

Brunei ranks 190th of 206 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1960s	0.0436 hectares per person	0.0361 hectares per person	0.0518 hectares per person	9
1970s	0.0273 hectares per person	0.0222 hectares per person	0.0444 hectares per person	10
1980s	0.0187 hectares per person	0.0161 hectares per person	0.0215 hectares per person	10
1990s	0.014 hectares per person	0.0125 hectares per person	0.0157 hectares per person	10
2000s	0.0113 hectares per person	0.0104 hectares per person	0.0123 hectares per person	10
2010s	0.0096 hectares per person	0.009 hectares per person	0.0102 hectares per person	10
2020s	0.0088 hectares per person	0.0087 hectares per person	0.0089 hectares per person	4

Countries ranked near Brunei

187 Marshall Islands 0.0129 hectares per person compare
188 Andorra 0.0091 hectares per person compare
189 French Polynesia 0.0089 hectares per person compare
191 United States Virgin Islands 0.0086 hectares per person compare
192 Palestine 0.0081 hectares per person compare
193 Qatar 0.0079 hectares per person compare

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More agriculture & rural data for Brunei

Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2024)
Rural population 25.0% (2025)
Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
Rural population 116,531 (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.2% (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 177.58 million current US$ (2025)
Land under cereal production 1,500 hectares (2023)
Cereal yield 2,467 kg per hectare (2023)
Cereal production 3,700 metric tons (2023)

All data for Brunei →

Frequently asked questions

What is arable land in Brunei?: Arable land in Brunei was 0.0087 hectares per person in 2023, according to 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).
What is the highest arable land recorded in Brunei?: The highest recorded value was 0.0518 hectares per person in 1966.
What is the lowest arable land recorded in Brunei?: The lowest recorded value was 0.0087 hectares per person in 2023.
How does Brunei rank for arable land?: Brunei ranks 190th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.
Is arable land rising or falling in Brunei?: Over the last ten years it is down 10.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
Where does this Brunei data come from?: The figures come from 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), published as part of Arable land (hectares per person). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator: Arable land (hectares per person)
Unit: hectares per person
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: 253 places, 14,649 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Arable land (hectares per person) 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.