**Source:** [FAOSTAT (2024)](https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL), Accessed 2026-08-05.

**Dataset:** FAOSTAT

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**Citation:** FAO. FAOSTAT. https://www.fao.org/faostat/ Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Data was generated by applying the following filters:
* Countries: All
* Element:
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      <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th><th>Unit</th><th>Definition</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Area</td><td>1000 ha</td><td>Extent of surface of land or water. Source: FAO Statistics Division</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

* Items:
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      <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th><th>Definition</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Land area</td><td>Country area excluding area under inland waters and coastal waters.</td></tr><tr><td>Agriculture</td><td>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”.</td></tr><tr><td>Cropland</td><td>Land used for cultivation of crops. The total of areas under ''Arable land'' and ''Permanent crops''.</td></tr><tr><td>Land area equipped for irrigation</td><td>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.</td></tr><tr><td>Agriculture area actually irrigated</td><td>Land area actually irrigated that is Agriculture.</td></tr><tr><td>Cropland area actually irrigated</td><td>Agricultural land actually irrigated that is Cropland.</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

* Years: <code>1961</code>, <code>1962</code>, <code>1963</code>, <code>1964</code>, <code>1965</code>, <code>1966</code>, <code>1967</code>, <code>1968</code>, <code>1969</code>, <code>1970</code>, <code>1971</code>, <code>1972</code>, <code>1973</code>, <code>1974</code>, <code>1975</code>, <code>1976</code>, <code>1977</code>, <code>1978</code>, <code>1979</code>, <code>1980</code>, <code>1981</code>, <code>1982</code>, <code>1983</code>, <code>1984</code>, <code>1985</code>, <code>1986</code>, <code>1987</code>, <code>1988</code>, <code>1989</code>, <code>1990</code>, <code>1991</code>, <code>1992</code>, <code>1993</code>, <code>1994</code>, <code>1995</code>, <code>1996</code>, <code>1997</code>, <code>1998</code>, <code>1999</code>, <code>2000</code>, <code>2001</code>, <code>2002</code>, <code>2003</code>, <code>2004</code>, <code>2005</code>, <code>2006</code>, <code>2007</code>, <code>2008</code>, <code>2009</code>, <code>2010</code>, <code>2011</code>, <code>2012</code>, <code>2013</code>, <code>2014</code>, <code>2015</code>, <code>2016</code>, <code>2017</code>, <code>2018</code>, <code>2019</code>, <code>2020</code>, <code>2021</code>, <code>2022</code>, <code>2023</code>, <code>2024</code>, <code>2025</code>