Renewable natural capital, agricultural land (real chained 2019 US$) by country

Natural capital includes the valuation of renewable and nonrenewable natural capital. Renewable natural capital includes agricultural land (cropland and pastureland), forests (timber, and three ecosystem services: water, recretion and non-wood forest products), protected areas, mangroves and fisheries. Nonrenewable...

Countries reporting
151
Highest
11.67 trillion real chained 2019 US$
China
Lowest
261.56 million real chained 2019 US$
Malta
Median
34.42 billion real chained 2019 US$
Years covered
26
1995–2020
Data points
3,885

What the numbers show

Renewable natural capital, agricultural land (real chained 2019 US$) is currently reported for 151 countries. The highest value is 11.67 trillion real chained 2019 US$ in China; the lowest is 261.56 million real chained 2019 US$ in Malta.

The median across all reporting countries is 34.42 billion real chained 2019 US$, and the mean is 223.64 billion real chained 2019 US$.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 44,603.

Over the past decade 75 countries rose and 68 fell. The largest increase was in Israel (up 28.1%), and the largest decrease in Montenegro (down 49.6%).

Renewable natural capital, agricultural land: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 11.67 trillion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.1% flat
1 Djibouti 631.25 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.0% rising
2 India 6.14 trillion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.3% flat
3 Indonesia 1.31 trillion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 12.1% rising
4 Nigeria 998.35 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 2.4% rising
5 Vietnam 826.87 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 14.9% rising
6 Egypt 780.10 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 8.2% rising
7 Pakistan 744.05 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 4.2% flat
8 Thailand 566.09 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 9.3% rising
9 Australia 500.47 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 5.5% falling
10 Turkey 495.05 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 3.2% falling
11 Bangladesh 446.80 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 7.1% flat
12 Iran 426.63 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.0% falling
13 Philippines 423.03 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 4.8% rising
14 Brazil 406.67 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 2.2% flat
15 Mexico 387.60 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 4.6% falling
16 Ethiopia 294.70 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 7.8% rising
17 Malaysia 213.54 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 16.0% rising
18 Cote d'Ivoire 212.52 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 2.9% rising
19 Tanzania 210.26 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 5.7% rising
20 Democratic Republic of Congo 200.55 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 18.1% rising
21 Ghana 195.30 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.1% falling
22 Morocco 189.97 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.3% flat
23 Russia 188.72 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 unchanged flat
24 New Zealand 183.45 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 11.0% falling
25 South Africa 181.55 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.6% flat
26 Nepal 179.75 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.1% flat
27 Argentina 176.10 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 14.2% falling
28 Sudan 172.12 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.8% flat
29 France 167.50 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.3% falling
30 Japan 166.74 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 4.8% falling
31 United States 160.06 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.3% flat
32 Kenya 156.01 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.1% flat
33 Poland 155.00 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.1% falling
34 Cameroon 152.82 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.5% rising
35 Romania 143.32 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 4.0% falling
36 Spain 142.40 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 5.1% falling
37 Italy 141.75 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 9.3% falling
38 Laos 135.88 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 8.6% rising
39 Papua New Guinea 127.98 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 unchanged rising
40 Malawi 124.59 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.6% rising
41 Germany 119.98 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.6% flat
42 Ukraine 111.81 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.1% flat
43 Uganda 110.59 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.1% rising
44 Cambodia 109.00 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 6.1% rising
45 South Korea 105.58 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 8.6% falling
46 Mali 102.85 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.4% rising
47 Niger 97.48 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 5.9% rising
48 Angola 88.95 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 8.5% rising
49 Burkina Faso 85.79 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 unchanged rising
50 Tunisia 83.97 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 3.1% flat
51 Saudi Arabia 81.66 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.1% rising
52 Benin 80.58 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 8.2% rising
53 Mozambique 77.04 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 4.4% rising
54 Colombia 71.66 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 13.5% rising
55 Sri Lanka 70.68 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 7.3% rising
56 United Kingdom 63.84 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.2% flat
57 Guatemala 61.22 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 2.7% falling
58 Dominican Republic 56.30 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.3% falling
59 Guinea 55.80 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.4% flat
60 Iraq 55.59 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 12.5% flat
61 Senegal 55.52 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 6.1% flat
62 Hungary 54.63 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 8.2% falling
63 Madagascar 54.30 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.0% rising
64 Chile 52.48 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.2% flat
65 Rwanda 51.61 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.4% rising
66 Greece 50.06 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 21.7% falling
67 Serbia 45.33 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.5% flat
68 Netherlands 45.12 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 3.1% falling
69 Zambia 45.05 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.7% rising
70 Peru 44.89 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.3% rising
71 Israel 44.65 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 28.1% rising
72 Costa Rica 42.25 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 3.2% falling
73 Bulgaria 39.63 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.1% falling
74 Czechia 38.26 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.0% falling
75 Chad 36.94 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 2.0% flat
76 Burundi 34.42 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 10.9% rising
77 Kazakhstan 30.23 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.5% flat
78 Lebanon 28.18 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 4.6% rising
79 Azerbaijan 28.09 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.3% flat
80 Sweden 26.81 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 2.2% falling
81 Togo 26.00 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 4.2% rising
82 Ecuador 24.61 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 27.7% falling
83 Honduras 24.20 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 7.4% rising
84 Zimbabwe 23.79 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 unchanged rising
85 Canada 21.94 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.9% falling
86 Portugal 21.59 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 6.0% flat
87 Tajikistan 21.48 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 3.4% rising
88 Lithuania 21.46 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 6.2% falling
89 Belgium 20.54 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.7% falling
90 Denmark 20.19 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.2% flat
91 Finland 19.53 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.0% flat
92 Albania 19.01 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 3.0% rising
93 Belarus 19.00 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 6.9% falling
94 Sierra Leone 18.78 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.5% rising
95 Kyrgyzstan 18.71 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 2.3% flat
96 Nicaragua 18.33 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.8% flat
97 Paraguay 17.83 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 4.8% rising
98 Bosnia and Herzegovina 16.33 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 3.4% flat
99 Slovakia 15.57 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 3.2% falling
100 Oman 15.03 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 1.1% rising
101 Jordan 14.94 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 2.7% flat
102 Haiti 14.87 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.6% rising
103 Croatia 14.77 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 12.8% falling
104 Norway 14.37 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 2.0% falling
105 Austria 13.66 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 4.8% falling
106 Bolivia 13.62 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.7% flat
107 Latvia 12.54 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 9.1% rising
108 El Salvador 12.43 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 5.7% falling
109 United Arab Emirates 12.37 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.6% falling
110 Central African Republic 12.18 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.7% flat
111 Jamaica 11.87 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 unchanged falling
112 Switzerland 11.83 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 2.0% falling
113 Congo 10.92 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.5% flat
114 Ireland 10.80 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.2% flat
115 North Macedonia 10.32 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 12.8% flat
116 Uruguay 10.23 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 2.6% falling
117 Namibia 9.64 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.0% flat
118 Panama 8.52 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 4.1% flat
119 Liberia 8.42 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 14.1% rising
120 Guyana 8.38 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 6.5% rising
121 Armenia 8.29 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 3.4% rising
122 Guinea-Bissau 7.39 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 9.0% rising
123 Georgia 7.06 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 3.3% falling
124 Gabon 6.75 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 4.5% rising
125 Solomon Islands 6.55 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 9.3% rising
126 Mongolia 6.40 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.3% falling
127 Eswatini 6.35 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 unchanged flat
128 Estonia 6.11 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 3.8% flat
129 Slovenia 5.86 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 2.1% rising
130 Moldova 5.06 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 8.1% falling
131 Botswana 4.79 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.0% flat
132 Mauritania 4.77 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.1% flat
133 Kuwait 3.91 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.3% rising
134 Mauritius 3.33 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 5.5% falling
135 Comoros 2.78 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.5% flat
136 Lesotho 2.50 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 11.8% flat
137 Gambia 1.76 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 1.6% rising
138 Qatar 1.72 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 8.7% rising
139 Suriname 1.68 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 7.3% flat
140 Belize 1.40 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 9.6% rising
141 Trinidad and Tobago 1.10 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 unchanged falling
142 Montenegro 1.09 billion real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 49.6% falling
143 Iceland 747.51 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.1% flat
144 Luxembourg 606.01 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.8% flat
145 Bahrain 604.41 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 0.0% falling
146 Sao Tome and Principe 586.74 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 4.3% falling
147 Singapore 500.04 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 10.8% falling
148 Saint Lucia 496.16 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 unchanged falling
149 Maldives 278.85 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 down 7.2% falling
150 Malta 261.56 million real chained 2019 US$ 2020 up 0.5% rising

About this data

Indicator
Renewable natural capital, agricultural land (real chained 2019 US$)
Unit
real chained 2019 US$
Source
World Bank. 2021. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021: Managing Assets for the Future. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1590-4
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
151 places, 3,885 data points, 1995–2020
Last refreshed

Natural capital includes the valuation of renewable and nonrenewable natural capital. Renewable natural capital includes agricultural land (cropland and pastureland), forests (timber, and three ecosystem services: water, recretion and non-wood forest products), protected areas, mangroves and fisheries. Nonrenewable natural capital includes fossil fuel energy (oil, gas, hard and soft coal) and minerals (bauxite, copper, gold, iron ore, lead, nickel, phosphate, silver, tin, and zinc),Values are measured at market exchange rates in constant 2018 US dollars, using a country-specific GDP deflator.