Countries in Africa by arable land

Questions

Which country in Africa has the most arable land?

Rwanda has the most arable land in Africa: 48.9% of the land arable (2024). Next come Togo (48.7% of the land arable) and Burundi (43.7% of the land arable).

Which country in Africa has the least arable land?

Djibouti, with 0.2% of the land arable (2024).

What is the typical arable land of a country in Africa?

The median of the 54 countries in Africa is 10.8% of the land arable: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

The share of the land that is ploughed and sown with crops that are replanted, or left fallow for a while. Source: World Bank, mostly 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.