Countries in Europe by arable land

Countries in Europe by arable land, World Bank, 2023

#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Denmark	59.1%	Northern Europe
=2	Moldova	56.8%	Eastern Europe
=2	Ukraine	56.8%	Eastern Europe
4	Hungary	45.4%	Eastern Europe
5	Lithuania	36.8%	Northern Europe
6	Poland	36.6%	Eastern Europe
7	Romania	36.5%	Eastern Europe
8	Germany	33.4%	Western Europe
9	San Marino	33.1%	Southern Europe
10	Czechia	32.7%	Eastern Europe
11	Bulgaria	32.1%	Eastern Europe
12	France	31.4%	Western Europe
13	Serbia	31.0%	Southern Europe
14	Netherlands	30.0%	Western Europe
15	Belgium	28.3%	Western Europe
16	Belarus	27.4%	Eastern Europe
17	Slovakia	27.2%	Eastern Europe
18	United Kingdom	25.0%	Northern Europe
19	Italy	24.0%	Southern Europe
20	Luxembourg	23.8%	Western Europe
21	Spain	23.0%	Southern Europe
22	Malta	22.8%	Southern Europe
23	Latvia	21.9%	Northern Europe
24	Albania	21.6%	Southern Europe
25	Estonia	16.6%	Northern Europe
26	North Macedonia	16.5%	Southern Europe
27	Austria	16.0%	Western Europe
28	Croatia	15.5%	Southern Europe
29	Greece	14.4%	Southern Europe
30	Liechtenstein	10.8%	Western Europe
31	Portugal	10.1%	Southern Europe
32	Switzerland	10.0%	Western Europe
33	Slovenia	8.9%	Southern Europe
=34	Finland	7.4%	Northern Europe
=34	Russia	7.4%	Eastern Europe
36	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.2%	Southern Europe
37	Ireland	6.4%	Northern Europe
38	Sweden	6.2%	Northern Europe
39	Norway	2.2%	Northern Europe
40	Andorra	1.6%	Southern Europe
41	Iceland	1.2%	Northern Europe
42	Montenegro	0.7%	Southern Europe

No World Bank figure for 2 countries: Monaco, Vatican City.

Territories and other places

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

Place	% of land	Status
Isle of Man	41.1%	Territory of United Kingdom
Faroe Islands	0.1%	Territory of Denmark

Questions

Which country in Europe has the most arable land?

Denmark has the most arable land in Europe: 59.1% of the land arable (2023). Next come Moldova (56.8% of the land arable) and Ukraine (56.8% of the land arable).

Which country in Europe has the least arable land?

Montenegro, with 0.7% of the land arable (2023).

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

The median of the 42 countries in Europe is 22.9% 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.