What is the highest arable land recorded in Portugal?

The highest recorded value was 0.2854 hectares per person in 1971.

What is the lowest arable land recorded in Portugal?

The lowest recorded value was 0.0877 hectares per person in 2023.

How does Portugal rank for arable land?

Portugal ranks 120th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.

Is arable land rising or falling in Portugal?

Over the last ten years it is down 19.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.

Arable land in Portugal

Name: Arable land in Portugal
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)

Portugal: Arable land was 0.0877 hectares per person in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)

0.0877 hectares per person

Change on year

down 1.9%

World rank

120th

of 206 countries

All-time high

0.2854 hectares per person

in 1971

All-time low

0.0877 hectares per person

in 2023

Years of data

1961–2023

Arable land in Portugal, 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

Portugal recorded 0.0877 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 1.9% on the previous year and down 19.5% over ten years.

Over the whole period, arable land in Portugal peaked at 0.2854 hectares per person in 1971 and was at its lowest, 0.0877 hectares per person, in 2023.

Portugal ranks 120th 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	0.2789 hectares per person	0.2761 hectares per person	0.2826 hectares per person	9
1970s	0.2714 hectares per person	0.2513 hectares per person	0.2854 hectares per person	10
1980s	0.2411 hectares per person	0.2377 hectares per person	0.2481 hectares per person	10
1990s	0.2085 hectares per person	0.1678 hectares per person	0.2348 hectares per person	10
2000s	0.1355 hectares per person	0.1089 hectares per person	0.1701 hectares per person	10
2010s	0.1019 hectares per person	0.0934 hectares per person	0.1089 hectares per person	10
2020s	0.0912 hectares per person	0.0877 hectares per person	0.0945 hectares per person	4

Countries ranked near Portugal

117 Mauritania 0.0896 hectares per person compare
118 Congo 0.089 hectares per person compare
119 United Kingdom 0.0882 hectares per person compare
121 North Korea 0.0869 hectares per person compare
122 Haiti 0.0864 hectares per person compare
123 Dominican Republic 0.0861 hectares per person compare

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More agriculture & rural data for Portugal

Agricultural raw materials exports 1.9% (2025)
Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2025)
Rural population 38.5% (2025)
Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
Rural population 4.16 million (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.0% (2025)
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.79 billion current US$ (2025)
Land under cereal production 191,630 hectares (2024)
Cereal yield 5,309 kg per hectare (2024)
Cereal production 1.02 million metric tons (2024)

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Frequently asked questions

What is arable land in Portugal?: Arable land in Portugal was 0.0877 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 Portugal?: The highest recorded value was 0.2854 hectares per person in 1971.
What is the lowest arable land recorded in Portugal?: The lowest recorded value was 0.0877 hectares per person in 2023.
How does Portugal rank for arable land?: Portugal ranks 120th out of 206 countries with data for 2023.
Is arable land rising or falling in Portugal?: Over the last ten years it is down 19.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Portugal 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.