| Land area | Country area excluding area under inland waters and coastal waters. |
| Agriculture | Land used for agricultural purposes, including for cultivation of crops and animal husbandry, farm buildings, etc. The total of areas under “Agricultural land” and “Farm buildings and Farmyards”. |
| Agricultural land | Land used for cultivation of crops and animal husbandry. The total of areas under ''Cropland'' and ''Permanent meadows and pastures.'' |
| Cropland | Land used for cultivation of crops. The total of areas under ''Arable land'' and ''Permanent crops''. |
| Arable land | Land used for cultivation of crops in rotation with fallow, meadows and pastures within cycles of up to five years. The total of areas under "Temporary crops,'' ''Temporary meadows and pastures,'' and ''Temporary fallow.'' Arable land does not include land that is potentially cultivable but is not cultivated. |
| Permanent crops | Land cultivated with long-term crops which do not have to be replanted for several years (such as cocoa and coffee), land under trees and shrubs producing flowers (such as roses and jasmine), and nurseries (except those for forest trees, which should be classified under "Forestry"). Permanent meadows and pastures are excluded from Permanent crops. |
| Permanent meadows and pastures | Land used permanently (five years or more) to grow herbaceous forage crops through cultivation or naturally (wild prairie or grazing land). Permanent meadows and pastures on which trees and shrubs are grown should be recorded under this heading only if the growing of forage crops is the most important use of the area. Measures may be taken to keep or increase productivity of the land (i.e., use of fertilizers, mowing or systematic grazing by domestic animals.) This class includes:
• Grazing in wooded areas (agroforestry areas, for example); • Grazing in shrubby zones (heath, maquis, garigue); • Grassland in the plain or low mountain areas used for grazing: land crossed during transhumance where the animals spend a part of the year (approximately 100 days) without returning to the holding in the evening: mountain and subalpine meadows and similar; and steppes and dry meadows used for pasture. |
| Farm buildings and Farmyards | Land used for agriculture occupied by dwellings on farms, etc.: dwellings, operating buildings (hangars, barns, cellars, greenhouses, silos), buildings for animal production (stables, cowsheds, pig sheds, sheep pens, poultry yards), farmyards. It also includes land used for family gardens. It excludes buildings for agro-food manufacture and buildings in rural areas for exclusive residential purpose. |
| Forest land | Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 metres and a canopy cover of more than 10 per cent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ.Excludes land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use. Explanatory notes:• Forest land is determined both by the presence of trees and by the absence of other predominant land uses. The trees should be able to reach a minimum height of 5 metres in situ• Includes areas with young trees that have not yet reached but that are expected to reach a canopy cover of 10 per cent and tree height of 5 metres. It also includes areas that are temporarily unstocked owing to clear-cutting as part of a forest management practice or natural disasters, and that are expected to be regenerated within five years. Local conditions may, in exceptional cases, justify the use of a longer time frame• Includes forest roads, firebreaks and other small open areas• May include forest land in national parks, nature reserves and other protected areas, such as those of specific environmental, scientific, historical, cultural orspiritual interest• Includes windbreaks, shelter belts and corridors of trees with an area of more than 0.5 hectares and width of more than 20 metres• Includes abandoned shifting cultivation land with a regeneration of trees that have, or is expected to reach, a canopy cover of 10 per cent and tree height of 5 metres• Includes areas with mangroves in tidal zones, regardless of whether this area is classified as land area or not• Includes areas with bamboo and palms provided that land use, height and canopy cover criteria are met• Some agroforestry systems such as the taungya system, where crops are grown only during the first years of the forest rotation should be classified as forest• Excludes: tree stands in agricultural production systems, such as fruit-tree plantations (→Permanent crops), oil palm plantations, rubber and Christmas trees (→Permanent crops) and agroforestry systems when crops are grown under tree cover |
| Other land | Land area not classified as "Agriculture" and ''Forestry''. It includes SEEA categories ''Land used for aquaculture", ''Built-up and related areas", ''Other uses of land not elsewhere classified", and ''Land not in use". |
| Land area equipped for irrigation | Land area equipped with irrigation infrastructure and equipment to provide water to crops, which are in working order. The equipment does not have to be used during the reference year. The area equipped for irrigation covers areas equipped for fully controlled irrigation by any of the methods of surface, sprinkler or localized irrigation. It also includes areas under partially controlled irrigation methods of spate irrigation (controlling flood waters to water crops), equipped wetlands and inland valley bottoms and equipped flood recession. It excludes manual watering of plants using buckets, watering cans or other devices. |
| Agriculture area actually irrigated | Land area actually irrigated that is Agriculture. |
| Cropland area actually irrigated | Agricultural land actually irrigated that is Cropland. |