Mauritius's arable land (% of land area) was 35.31% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is unchanged since 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 35.31% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 35.31% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 35.31% | 2014 |
| Highest | 49.3% | 1989 |
| Lowest | 35.31% | 2014 |
| Average since 2015 | 35.31% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 44.33% | 1961 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Mauritius' arable land (% of land area) did not change 0 percentage points on 2023 (from 35.31% to 35.31%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was −0.43 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.73 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 2.71 percentage points in 1968 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.22 percentage points in 2008. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Mauritius had the 20th highest value of the 205 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Mauritius | 35.31% | 2024 |
| World | 10.67% | 2023 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 10.02% | 2023 |
| Upper middle income | 9.77% | 2023 |
Closest to Mauritius in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.
Limitations: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) tries to impose standard definitions and reporting methods, but complete consistency across countries and over time is not possible. Thus, data on agricultural land in different climates may not be comparable. For example, permanent pastures are quite different in nature and intensity in African countries and dry Middle Eastern countries. The data collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations from official national sources through the questionnaire are supplemented with information from official secondary data sources.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 64 values
| Year | Arable land (% of land area) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 35.31 |
| 2023 | 35.31 |
| 2022 | 35.31 |
| 2021 | 35.31 |
| 2020 | 35.31 |
| 2019 | 35.31 |
| 2018 | 35.31 |
| 2017 | 35.31 |
| 2016 | 35.31 |
| 2015 | 35.31 |
| 2014 |
Arable land (% of land area) in nearby economies
- Angola — 3.66% (2024)
- Benin — 32.34% (2024)
- Botswana — 0.46% (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 28.9% (2024)
- Burundi — 43.66% (2024)
- Cabo Verde — 17.97% (2024)
- Cameroon — 13.12% (2024)
- Central African Republic — 2.89% (2024)
- Chad — 4.21% (2024)
- Comoros — 29.6% (2024)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 7.29% (2024)
More environment data for Mauritius
- Rural population — 758,222 (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 60.96% (2025)
- Urban population — 485,519 (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 39.04% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 1,888 (2024)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons) — 38,022 (2024)
- Total fisheries production (metric tons) — 39,910 (2024)
- Rural population growth (annual %) — -0.2% (2025)
- Urban population growth (annual %) — -0.11% (2025)
- Fertilizer consumption (kilograms per hectare of arable land)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Mauritius's arable land (% of land area)?
- 35.31% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1961?
- It is down 9.02 percentage points from 44.33% in 1961. The highest value was 49.3% in 1989 and the lowest 35.31% in 2014.
- How does Mauritius rank?
- 20th highest of 205 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in arable land (% of land area) unusual for Mauritius?
- In 2024, Mauritius' arable land (% of land area) did not change 0 percentage points on 2023 (from 35.31% to 35.31%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was −0.43 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.73 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator AG.LND.ARBL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: FAO electronic files and website, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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