2026-09-07 · Habitable land (ice- and desert-free)
Half the habitable land is already a farm
Ignore ice and desert. Of the land people can actually live on, grazing and crops take about half. Forest still holds a third. Cities are a rounding error on the map and a giant fact in our heads.
Ignore ice and desert. Of the land people can actually live on, grazing and crops take about half. Forest still holds a third. Cities are a rounding error on the map and a giant fact in our heads. This grid divides habitable land (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Forest, Grazing land, and 2 more groups — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 104 thousand km² of habitable land (0.1% of habitable land) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from Our World in Data — land use put Forest at 38% of habitable land and Grazing land at 29% — about 104 million in this edition's rounding.
Our World in Data land use, after FAO: ~44% of habitable land is agriculture (about one-third of that cropland, two-thirds grazing); forests ~38% of habitable land.
Remaining packed as other.
Our World in Data land use, after FAO: ~44% of habitable land is agriculture (about one-third of that cropland, two-thirds grazing); forests ~38% of habitable land. Remaining packed as other. Habitable land ~104 million km². Cells rounded to 1,000.
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