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Nations who don't really need to buy outside food

post #1 of 3
5/19/10 at 1:54pm
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Interesting statistics from around the world re: useful land.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ge...and-use-arable

I was a bit surprised to see the U.K. has 23% arable land (that's pretty good right?) while the U.S.A. has only 18%. ... ..... ..I thought U.S.A. would be higher. And look at Canada - Less than 5%. That's gotta be a mistake.

I guess they'll never grow hungry in Hungary (49% arable land).

Edit: I think I should take back my inclusion of Bangladesh. If I'm not mistaken, they grow a lot of cotton for export and they're small in size so I wouldn't be surprised if they buy food from other countries. Denmark's small too.
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post #2 of 3
5/19/10 at 7:42pm
The other statistic you need to look at is acres of arable land to population. Bangladesh might be 50percent arable but if you have lots of people in a tiny country that doesn't mean squat as you need a certain number of acres to feed a person.

Canada is huge but that figure doesn't suprise me as much of the land is effectively tundra or mountains.
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post #3 of 3
5/20/10 at 3:57pm
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You're right Lyrajean. I find it interesting Syria is listed at 24% while Jordan (less than 4%) and Egypt (less than 3%) are so low and they're not super far from each other
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