What is the highest arable land recorded in Japan?

The highest recorded value was 0.0602 hectares per person in 1961.

What is the lowest arable land recorded in Japan?

The lowest recorded value was 0.0325 hectares per person in 2023.

How does Japan rank for arable land?

Japan ranks 157th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.

Is arable land rising or falling in Japan?

Over the last ten years it is down 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.

Arable land in Japan

Name: Arable land in Japan
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)

Japan: Arable land was 0.0325 hectares per person in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)

0.0325 hectares per person

Change on year

down 0.1%

World rank

157th

of 206 countries

All-time high

0.0602 hectares per person

in 1961

All-time low

0.0325 hectares per person

in 2023

Years of data

1961–2023

Arable land in Japan, 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

The most recent figure for arable land in Japan is 0.0325 hectares per person, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 63 years on record.

The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 2.3% over ten years.

Over the whole period, arable land in Japan peaked at 0.0602 hectares per person in 1961 and was at its lowest, 0.0325 hectares per person, in 2023.

That places Japan 157th out of 206 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.

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

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1960s	0.0558 hectares per person	0.0505 hectares per person	0.0602 hectares per person	9
1970s	0.0453 hectares per person	0.0421 hectares per person	0.0503 hectares per person	10
1980s	0.0402 hectares per person	0.0389 hectares per person	0.0417 hectares per person	10
1990s	0.0371 hectares per person	0.0356 hectares per person	0.0386 hectares per person	10
2000s	0.0343 hectares per person	0.0335 hectares per person	0.0353 hectares per person	10
2010s	0.033 hectares per person	0.0326 hectares per person	0.0334 hectares per person	10
2020s	0.0325 hectares per person	0.0325 hectares per person	0.0325 hectares per person	4

Countries ranked near Japan

154 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0429 hectares per person compare
155 Jamaica 0.0423 hectares per person compare
156 Costa Rica 0.0327 hectares per person compare
158 Papua New Guinea 0.0318 hectares per person compare
159 Yemen 0.0294 hectares per person compare
160 Solomon Islands 0.0287 hectares per person compare

See the full ranking of 253 places →

More agriculture & rural data for Japan

Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2025)
Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2025)
Rural population 7.7% (2025)
Rural population growth -1.9% (2025)
Rural population 9.50 million (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.0% (2024)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 40.15 billion current US$ (2024)
Land under cereal production 1.84 million hectares (2023)
Cereal yield 6,245 kg per hectare (2023)
Cereal production 11.50 million metric tons (2023)

All data for Japan →

Frequently asked questions

What is arable land in Japan?: Arable land in Japan was 0.0325 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 Japan?: The highest recorded value was 0.0602 hectares per person in 1961.
What is the lowest arable land recorded in Japan?: The lowest recorded value was 0.0325 hectares per person in 2023.
How does Japan rank for arable land?: Japan ranks 157th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.
Is arable land rising or falling in Japan?: Over the last ten years it is down 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Japan 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.