What is the highest arable land recorded in Burundi?

The highest recorded value was 0.2872 hectares per person in 1969.

What is the lowest arable land recorded in Burundi?

The lowest recorded value was 0.0965 hectares per person in 2023.

How does Burundi rank for arable land?

Burundi ranks 109th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.

Is arable land rising or falling in Burundi?

Over the last ten years it is down 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.

Arable land in Burundi

Name: Arable land in Burundi
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)

Burundi: Arable land was 0.0965 hectares per person in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)

0.0965 hectares per person

Change on year

down 0.6%

World rank

109th

of 206 countries

All-time high

0.2872 hectares per person

in 1969

All-time low

0.0965 hectares per person

in 2023

Years of data

1961–2023

Arable land in Burundi, 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

Burundi recorded 0.0965 hectares per person for arable land in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 63 years on record.

The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 4.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, arable land in Burundi peaked at 0.2872 hectares per person in 1969 and was at its lowest, 0.0965 hectares per person, in 2023.

Burundi ranks 109th of 206 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 63 years of available data.

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1960s	0.2448 hectares per person	0.234 hectares per person	0.2872 hectares per person	9
1970s	0.2451 hectares per person	0.2212 hectares per person	0.2663 hectares per person	10
1980s	0.1883 hectares per person	0.17 hectares per person	0.2121 hectares per person	10
1990s	0.1586 hectares per person	0.1515 hectares per person	0.1665 hectares per person	10
2000s	0.1293 hectares per person	0.106 hectares per person	0.1484 hectares per person	10
2010s	0.1009 hectares per person	0.0992 hectares per person	0.1029 hectares per person	10
2020s	0.0975 hectares per person	0.0965 hectares per person	0.0985 hectares per person	4

Countries ranked near Burundi

106 Botswana 0.1048 hectares per person compare
107 Saudi Arabia 0.1018 hectares per person compare
108 New Zealand 0.1 hectares per person compare
110 Madagascar 0.0962 hectares per person compare
111 Cape Verde 0.0957 hectares per person compare
112 Honduras 0.0956 hectares per person compare

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More agriculture & rural data for Burundi

Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2023)
Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2023)
Rural population 74.3% (2025)
Rural population growth 1.3% (2025)
Rural population 10.69 million (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 34.3% (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.15 billion current US$ (2025)
Land under cereal production 678,679 hectares (2024)
Cereal yield 1,163 kg per hectare (2024)
Cereal production 789,542 metric tons (2024)

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Frequently asked questions

What is arable land in Burundi?: Arable land in Burundi was 0.0965 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 Burundi?: The highest recorded value was 0.2872 hectares per person in 1969.
What is the lowest arable land recorded in Burundi?: The lowest recorded value was 0.0965 hectares per person in 2023.
How does Burundi rank for arable land?: Burundi ranks 109th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.
Is arable land rising or falling in Burundi?: Over the last ten years it is down 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Burundi 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.