Countries in Asia by arable land

Countries in Asia by arable land, World Bank, 2023

#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Bangladesh	60.6%	Southern Asia
2	India	51.8%	Southern Asia
3	Pakistan	39.3%	Southern Asia
4	Thailand	31.0%	South-Eastern Asia
5	Turkey	26.3%	Western Asia
6	Azerbaijan	25.3%	Western Asia
7	Syria	24.0%	Western Asia
8	Cambodia	23.3%	South-Eastern Asia
9	Sri Lanka	22.2%	Southern Asia
10	Vietnam	21.5%	South-Eastern Asia
11	North Korea	19.1%	Eastern Asia
12	Philippines	18.7%	South-Eastern Asia
13	Myanmar	16.9%	South-Eastern Asia
14	Armenia	15.7%	Western Asia
15	South Korea	14.9%	Eastern Asia
16	Maldives	13.4%	Southern Asia
17	Lebanon	13.1%	Western Asia
18	Nepal	12.6%	Southern Asia
19	Israel	12.5%	Western Asia
20	Afghanistan	12.0%	Southern Asia
21	China	11.5%	Eastern Asia
22	Iraq	11.4%	Western Asia
23	Japan	11.1%	Eastern Asia
24	Kazakhstan	11.0%	Central Asia
25	Cyprus	10.6%	Western Asia
26	Iran	9.7%	Southern Asia
27	Indonesia	9.4%	South-Eastern Asia
28	Uzbekistan	9.1%	Central Asia
29	Timor-Leste	7.5%	South-Eastern Asia
30	Kyrgyzstan	6.7%	Central Asia
31	Tajikistan	6.1%	Central Asia
32	Laos	5.3%	South-Eastern Asia
33	Georgia	4.4%	Western Asia
34	Turkmenistan	3.4%	Central Asia
=35	Bahrain	2.6%	Western Asia
=35	Bhutan	2.6%	Southern Asia
37	Malaysia	2.4%	South-Eastern Asia
38	Jordan	2.3%	Western Asia
39	Yemen	2.2%	Western Asia
40	Qatar	1.8%	Western Asia
41	Saudi Arabia	1.6%	Western Asia
=42	Brunei	0.8%	South-Eastern Asia
=42	Singapore	0.8%	South-Eastern Asia
=44	Mongolia	0.7%	Eastern Asia
=44	United Arab Emirates	0.7%	Western Asia
46	Kuwait	0.4%	Western Asia
47	Oman	0.3%	Western Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	% of land	Status
Palestine	7.0%	Status disputed
Hong Kong	1.9%	Territory of China

Questions

Which country in Asia has the most arable land?

Bangladesh has the most arable land in Asia: 60.6% of the land arable (2023). Next come India (51.8% of the land arable) and Pakistan (39.3% of the land arable).

Which country in Asia has the least arable land?

Oman, with 0.3% of the land arable (2023).

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

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 11.0% 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, 2023. 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.