Breakdown of habitable land area, World, 2019
Habitable land is defined as ice- and barren-free land. Agricultural land is the sum of croplands and pasture forgrazing.
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- Agricultural area over the long-term
- Agricultural land per capita
- Agricultural land use
- Agricultural land use per person
- Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops
- Arable land use per person
- Area of land needed to meet global vegetable oil demand
- Change in cereal production, yield, land use and population
- Commodity-driven deforestation
- Contribution to global mean surface temperature rise from agriculture and land use
- Coverage of wetlands
- Cropland and pasture per person
- Cropland area
- Cropland extent over the long-term
- Cropland per person over the long-term
- Dietary land use vs. GDP per capita
- Extent of extensive agriculture
- Extent of foraging, hunting and gathering
- Extent of intensive agriculture
- Extent of pastoralism
- FAO projections of arable land
- Global agricultural land use by major crop type
- Global cropland is still increasing
- Global land use since 10,000 BCE
- Grazing land use over the long-term
- Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
- How much cropland has the world spared due to increases in crop yields?
- How much global land is used as pasture for livestock?
- Is agricultural land expanding? Change over the prior decade
- Land area in hectares
- Land area in square kilometres
- Land area per crop type
- Land use
- Land use for palm oil production
- Land use for vegetable oil crops
- Land use of foods per 1000 kilocalories
- Land use over the long-term
- Land use per 100 grams of protein
- Land use per kilogram of food product
- Land use vs. yield change in cereal production
- Land used for agriculture
- Organic agricultural area
- Pig production: Land use vs. cost to animal welfare
- Projections for global peak agricultural land
- Share of adults who perceive their rights to land as secure
- Share of adults with legal documentation of their rights to land
- Share of arable land which is organic
- Share of deforestation that is driven by domestic consumption
- Share of global habitable land needed for agriculture if everyone had the diet of...
- Share of land area used for agriculture
- Share of land area used for arable agriculture
- Share of land covered by lakes and rivers
- Share of land defined as natural habitat
- Share of land that is degraded
- Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures
- Share of mountain land that is degraded
- Share of rural land area where the elevation is 5 meters or less
- Share of world regions with land use present
- Terrain Ruggedness Index
- Tree cover loss by dominant driver
- Woodland area by type