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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.

How to read: 1 cell = 104 thousand km² of habitable land (0.1% of habitable land). 1,000 cells total.

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.

All 1000 cells. 1 cell = 104 thousand km² of habitable land (0.1% of habitable land). Hover or tap any square for details.

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.

  • Our World in Data — land use

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