Agricultural Land Use

Name: Ghana Agricultural Land Use
Creator: FAO FAOSTAT
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Ghana's land by use: arable land, permanent crops, permanent meadows and pasture, forest, inland water and the share of cropland that is irrigated, since 1961. Sourced from FAO FAOSTAT, CC BY 4.0. 1722 records.

v1.0last updated Sep 18, 2026 · covers 1961 to 2025listing updated Sep 18, 2026GH₵9.001,722 recordsAgriculture

Fields

Every column this dataset returns, with its type. This is the shape of the API response.

Field	Type
item	TEXT NOT NULL
item_code	TEXT
element	TEXT
year	INTEGER NOT NULL
value	DECIMAL(20,4)
unit	TEXT
flag	TEXT
source	TEXT

Preview

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First 5 rows of Agricultural Land Use
itemTEXT NOT NULL	item codeTEXT	elementTEXT	yearINTEGER NOT NULL	valueDECIMAL(20,4)	unitTEXT	flagTEXT	sourceTEXT
Agricultural land	6610	Area	1961	11700	1000 ha	Value imputed by a receiving agency	FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)
Agricultural land	6610	Area	1962	11700	1000 ha	Value imputed by a receiving agency	FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)
Agricultural land	6610	Area	1963	11700	1000 ha	Value imputed by a receiving agency	FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)
Agricultural land	6610	Area	1964	11700	1000 ha	Value imputed by a receiving agency	FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)
Agricultural land	6610	Area	1965	11700	1000 ha	Value imputed by a receiving agency	FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)

itemTEXT NOT NULL	item codeTEXT	elementTEXT	yearINTEGER NOT NULL	valueDECIMAL(20,4)	unitTEXT	flagTEXT	sourceTEXT
example-item-1	example-item_code-1	example-element-1	10	10	example-unit-1	example-flag-1	example-source-1
example-item-2	example-item_code-2	example-element-2	20	20	example-unit-2	example-flag-2	example-source-2
example-item-3	example-item_code-3	example-element-3	30	30	example-unit-3	example-flag-3	example-source-3
example-item-4	example-item_code-4	example-element-4	40	40	example-unit-4	example-flag-4	example-source-4
example-item-5	example-item_code-5	example-element-5	50	50	example-unit-5	example-flag-5	example-source-5
example-item-6	example-item_code-6	example-element-6	60	60	example-unit-6	example-flag-6	example-source-6
example-item-7	example-item_code-7	example-element-7	70	70	example-unit-7	example-flag-7	example-source-7
example-item-8	example-item_code-8	example-element-8	80	80	example-unit-8	example-flag-8	example-source-8

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Endpoint

GET connect.apighana.com/api/data/agricultural_land_use

Auth: X-API-Key header
Pagination: page · limit
Format: JSON
Version: 1.0
Last updated: Sep 18, 2026from the source
Covers: 1961 to 2025
Refreshed: monthly
Last checked: Oct 1, 2026looked right
Source: FAO FAOSTAT

How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (FAO FAOSTAT). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. These records cover 1961 to 2025; say which period your figures come from. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Agricultural land use (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from FAO FAOSTAT]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/agricultural-land-use

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/agricultural_land_use?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/agricultural_land_use?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/agricultural_land_use",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]

Field

Type

item

TEXT NOT NULL

item_code

TEXT

element

TEXT

year

INTEGER NOT NULL

value

DECIMAL(20,4)

unit

TEXT

flag

TEXT

source

TEXT

itemTEXT NOT NULL

item codeTEXT

elementTEXT

yearINTEGER NOT NULL

valueDECIMAL(20,4)

unitTEXT

flagTEXT

sourceTEXT

Agricultural land

6610

Area

1961

11700

1000 ha

Value imputed by a receiving agency

FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)

Agricultural land

6610

Area

1962

11700

1000 ha

Value imputed by a receiving agency

FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)

Agricultural land

6610

Area

1963

11700

1000 ha

Value imputed by a receiving agency

FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)

Agricultural land

6610

Area

1964

11700

1000 ha

Value imputed by a receiving agency

FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)

Agricultural land

6610

Area

1965

11700

1000 ha

Value imputed by a receiving agency

FAO FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0)

itemTEXT NOT NULL

item codeTEXT

elementTEXT

yearINTEGER NOT NULL

valueDECIMAL(20,4)

unitTEXT

flagTEXT

sourceTEXT

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How to cite

API Ghana. (2026). Agricultural land use (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from FAO FAOSTAT]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/agricultural-land-use

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/agricultural_land_use?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/agricultural_land_use?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/agricultural_land_use",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]