What is the highest arable land recorded in Malaysia?

The highest recorded value was 0.0943 hectares per person in 1972.

What is the lowest arable land recorded in Malaysia?

The lowest recorded value was 0.0223 hectares per person in 2023.

How does Malaysia rank for arable land?

Malaysia ranks 169th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.

Is arable land rising or falling in Malaysia?

Over the last ten years it is down 16.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.

Arable land in Malaysia

Name: Arable land in Malaysia
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)

Malaysia: Arable land was 0.0223 hectares per person in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)

0.0223 hectares per person

Change on year

down 6.1%

World rank

169th

of 206 countries

All-time high

0.0943 hectares per person

in 1972

All-time low

0.0223 hectares per person

in 2023

Years of data

1961–2023

Arable land in Malaysia, 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

In 2023, arable land in Malaysia stood at 0.0223 hectares per person. That is the lowest value across all 63 years on record.

That represents a change of down 6.1% on the previous year and down 16.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, arable land in Malaysia peaked at 0.0943 hectares per person in 1972 and was at its lowest, 0.0223 hectares per person, in 2023.

Malaysia ranks 169th of 206 countries on this measure, 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	0.0887 hectares per person	0.083 hectares per person	0.0931 hectares per person	9
1970s	0.0905 hectares per person	0.0857 hectares per person	0.0943 hectares per person	10
1980s	0.0645 hectares per person	0.0524 hectares per person	0.0815 hectares per person	10
1990s	0.0454 hectares per person	0.0391 hectares per person	0.0522 hectares per person	10
2000s	0.0354 hectares per person	0.03 hectares per person	0.0401 hectares per person	10
2010s	0.027 hectares per person	0.0247 hectares per person	0.0298 hectares per person	10
2020s	0.0236 hectares per person	0.0223 hectares per person	0.0244 hectares per person	4

Countries ranked near Malaysia

166 Grenada 0.0256 hectares per person compare
167 Barbados 0.0248 hectares per person compare
168 Lebanon 0.0232 hectares per person compare
170 American Samoa 0.0217 hectares per person compare
171 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0216 hectares per person compare
172 New Caledonia 0.0206 hectares per person compare

See the full ranking of 253 places →

More agriculture & rural data for Malaysia

Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2025)
Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2025)
Rural population 22.6% (2025)
Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
Rural population 8.13 million (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.2% (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 38.79 billion current US$ (2025)
Land under cereal production 615,072 hectares (2023)
Cereal yield 3,524 kg per hectare (2023)
Cereal production 2.17 million metric tons (2023)

All data for Malaysia →

Frequently asked questions

What is arable land in Malaysia?: Arable land in Malaysia was 0.0223 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 Malaysia?: The highest recorded value was 0.0943 hectares per person in 1972.
What is the lowest arable land recorded in Malaysia?: The lowest recorded value was 0.0223 hectares per person in 2023.
How does Malaysia rank for arable land?: Malaysia ranks 169th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.
Is arable land rising or falling in Malaysia?: Over the last ten years it is down 16.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Malaysia 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.