Oman: Arable land (% of land area)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Oman's arable land (% of land area) rose 0.02 percentage points on 2023 (from 0.28% to 0.3%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.01 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.0 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 0.05 percentage points in 2015 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.02 percentage points in 1993. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.01 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 87% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 0.35% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.02%, against 0.04% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2024, Oman had the 204th 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.

Closest to Oman in the 2024 ranking

• Seychelles — 200th of 205: 0.33%
• New Caledonia — 201st of 205: 0.32%
• Andorra — 202nd of 205: 0.31%
• Djibouti — 204th of 205: 0.16%
• Faroe Islands — 205th of 205: 0.05%

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

Arable land (% of land area) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 11.98% (2024)
• Algeria — 3.16% (2024)
• Bahrain — 2.63% (2024)
• Djibouti — 0.16% (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 3.29% (2024)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 9.68% (2024)
• Iraq — 11.3% (2024)
• Israel — 11.89% (2024)
• Jordan — 2.26% (2024)
• Kuwait — 0.45% (2024)
• Lebanon — 10.79% (2024)
• Libya

More environment data for Oman

• Population in largest city — 1.7 million (2025)
• Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 38.99% (2025)
• Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 1.7 million (2025)
• Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 30.98% (2025)
• Rural population — 1.13 million (2025)
• Rural population (% of total population) — 20.52% (2025)
• Urban population — 4.37 million (2025)
• Urban population (% of total population) — 79.48% (2025)
• Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 5,500 (2024)
• Capture fisheries production (metric tons)

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Questions people ask

What is Oman's arable land (% of land area)?

0.3% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1961?

It is up 0.24 percentage points from 0.06% in 1961. The highest value was 0.3% in 2024 and the lowest 0.06% in 1961.

How does Oman rank?

204th highest of 205 economies with data for 2024.

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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