Which country in North America has the most arable land?

Haiti has the most arable land in North America: 36.5% of the land arable (2023). Next come El Salvador (34.8% of the land arable) and Cuba (28.0% of the land arable).

Which country in North America has the least arable land?

The Bahamas, with 0.8% of the land arable (2023).

What is the typical arable land of a country in North America?

The median of the 23 countries in North America is 9.1% 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.

Countries in North America by arable land

The share of the land that is ploughed and sown with crops that are replanted, or left fallow for a while. 23 countries in North America, highest first. World Bank, 2023

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Highest

36.5%

Haiti

Median country

9.1%

half above, half below

Lowest

0.8%

Bahamas

Countries in North America by arable land, World Bank, 2023
#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Haiti	36.5%	Caribbean
2	El Salvador	34.8%	Central America
3	Cuba	28.0%	Caribbean
4	Dominican Republic	20.2%	Caribbean
5	Saint Kitts and Nevis	19.2%	Caribbean
6	United States	16.6%	Northern America
7	Barbados	16.3%	Caribbean
8	Guatemala	14.5%	Central America
9	Nicaragua	12.5%	Central America
10	Jamaica	11.1%	Caribbean
11	Mexico	10.3%	Central America
=12	Antigua and Barbuda	9.1%	Caribbean
=12	Honduras	9.1%	Central America
14	Grenada	8.8%	Caribbean
15	Dominica	8.0%	Caribbean
16	Panama	7.6%	Central America
17	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	5.1%	Caribbean
18	Trinidad and Tobago	4.9%	Caribbean
=19	Belize	4.4%	Central America
=19	Saint Lucia	4.4%	Caribbean
21	Canada	4.3%	Northern America
22	Costa Rica	3.3%	Central America
23	Bahamas	0.8%	Caribbean

Territories and other places

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

Place	% of land	Status
Aruba	11.1%	Territory of Netherlands
British Virgin Islands	6.7%	Territory of United Kingdom
Puerto Rico	5.7%	Territory of United States of America
Bermuda	5.6%	Territory of United Kingdom
US Virgin Islands	2.6%	Territory of United States of America
Turks and Caicos Islands	1.1%	Territory of United Kingdom
Cayman Islands	0.8%	Territory of United Kingdom

Questions

Which country in North America has the most arable land?: Haiti has the most arable land in North America: 36.5% of the land arable (2023). Next come El Salvador (34.8% of the land arable) and Cuba (28.0% of the land arable).
Which country in North America has the least arable land?: The Bahamas, with 0.8% of the land arable (2023).
What is the typical arable land of a country in North America?: The median of the 23 countries in North America is 9.1% 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.