Which country in Oceania has the most arable land?

Tonga has the most arable land in Oceania: 27.8% of the land arable (2023). Next come Fiji (4.2% of the land arable) and Australia (4.0% of the land arable).

Which country in Oceania has the least arable land?

Papua New Guinea, with 0.7% of the land arable (2023).

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

The median of the 12 countries in Oceania is 2.6% 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 Oceania by arable land

The share of the land that is ploughed and sown with crops that are replanted, or left fallow for a while. 12 countries in Oceania, highest first. World Bank, 2023

See it on the map

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Highest

27.8%

Tonga

Median country

2.6%

half above, half below

Lowest

0.7%

Papua New Guinea

Countries in Oceania by arable land, World Bank, 2023
#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Tonga	27.8%	Polynesia
2	Fiji	4.2%	Melanesia
3	Australia	4.0%	Australia and New Zealand
4	Samoa	3.9%	Polynesia
5	Micronesia	2.9%	Micronesia
6	Marshall Islands	2.8%	Micronesia
7	Kiribati	2.5%	Micronesia
8	New Zealand	2.0%	Australia and New Zealand
9	Vanuatu	1.6%	Melanesia
10	Solomon Islands	0.8%	Melanesia
=11	Palau	0.7%	Micronesia
=11	Papua New Guinea	0.7%	Melanesia

No World Bank figure for Nauru.

Territories and other places

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

Place	% of land	Status
American Samoa	5.2%	Territory of United States of America
Guam	1.9%	Territory of United States of America
French Polynesia	0.7%	Territory of France
New Caledonia	0.3%	Territory of France
Northern Mariana Islands	0.2%	Territory of United States of America

Questions

Which country in Oceania has the most arable land?: Tonga has the most arable land in Oceania: 27.8% of the land arable (2023). Next come Fiji (4.2% of the land arable) and Australia (4.0% of the land arable).
Which country in Oceania has the least arable land?: Papua New Guinea, with 0.7% of the land arable (2023).
What is the typical arable land of a country in Oceania?: The median of the 12 countries in Oceania is 2.6% 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.