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The 10 Countries With the Most Organic Farmland |
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Organic farming brings to mind small European plots. The numbers point somewhere else. The 2026 edition of the FiBL and IFOAM global survey counts 98.9 million organic hectares worldwide. Australia holds 53.0 million of them. Second-placed India has 4.0 million. Almost all of Australia’s share is open grazing land. |
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Source: FiBL & IFOAM, The World of Organic Agriculture 2026 (Feb 10, 2026). Organic land incl. in-conversion, 2024. Australia’s figure dates from 2022. |
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Australia has 53.0 million hectares of certified organic farmland. That is 13 times India, in second place, and 28 times Germany. On FiBL’s count it is 54% of all the organic farmland on Earth. Ten years earlier the figure was 22.1 million hectares. The ten countries on this chart hold 82% of the world’s organic land between them. The land is not what most people picture. FiBL estimates 99% of it is extensive grazing. Just 1,635 producers work it, so the average Australian organic holding runs past 30,000 hectares. In India, 2.4 million organic farmers share 4.0 million hectares. Their average is 1.7. Argentina, in third, looks like Australia: SENASA counts 3.7 million of its 3.9 million organic hectares as livestock land. Worldwide, grassland and grazing make up 69.6 million of the 98.9 million organic hectares. The headline number is also softer than it looks. Australia’s figure dates from 2022. This year Australian Organic rebuilt its count from federal records and got 44.4 million hectares as of June 2026, a 16% cut. Australia still holds about half the world’s organic land. Nobody else is close. |
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Europe farms organic by share, not by size. Liechtenstein has 43.5% of its farmland under organic management. Austria: 27.2%. Twenty-two countries are at 10% or more, most of them in Europe. The European Union: 11.1%. The world: 2.1%. The EU’s 18.1 million organic hectares add up to about a third of Australia’s total. Money follows shoppers, not hectares. Organic retail sales reached €145 billion in 2024. Americans spent €60.4 billion of it, about 42%, in a country with 3% of the world’s organic land. Australia’s last reported figure is €1.3 billion. That is under 1% of sales from about half the land. Per person, Americans spend €176 a year on organic. Australians: €52. The United States jumped 56% in a year, to 3.2 million hectares. FiBL says most of North America’s gain reflects better data coverage, not new farms. China added 169,000 hectares, up 5%. India went the other way, down 503,000 hectares, or 11%. Uruguay and Italy are the only countries in the top ten for both size and share. |
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54% Australia’s share of the world’s organic farmland on FiBL’s 2026 count. Australia’s own revised figure puts it at 49%. |
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30,000+ ha The average Australian organic holding. India’s average: 1.7 hectares. Germany’s: 53. |
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2.1% The share of the world’s farmland that is organic. Nearly 98 of every 100 farmed hectares are not. |
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€60.4 billion Organic sales in the United States in 2024, about 42% of the world total. Australians spent €1.3 billion. |
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43.5% Liechtenstein’s organic share of farmland, the highest on Earth. All 1,574 of its organic hectares would fit into an average Australian holding about 20 times. |
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FiBL and IFOAM publish the 2027 edition in February, around the BIOFACH organic fair in Nuremberg (February 16–19). The question is which Australian number it uses. If it adopts the revised 44.4 million hectares, the world total drops by about 8.6 million hectares on paper alone, to roughly 90 million. Australian Organic calls its new figure a baseline to measure future growth against. Two more things to track: whether the US gain holds once its data settles, and whether India’s slide continues. We’ll be watching. |
