caa a22 4500 388105143 CHVBK 20180307125335.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S030574100000583X doi S030574100000583X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S030574100000583X Smil Vaclav China's Agricultural Land [Elektronische Daten] [Vaclav Smil] Official figures show that the total extent of China's farmland has been steadily decreasing since the late 1950s and that it now stands at roughly 95 million hectares (Mha). Divided by 1.243 billion people, China's mid-1998 population total, this prorates to less than 0.08 ha/capita, a rate comparable to that of Bangladesh, equal to only about 60 per cent of Asia's and to roughly 40 per cent of India's mean, and to just 25 per cent of the global average (Figure 1). Copyright © The China Quarterly 1999 The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 158(1999-06), 414-429 0305-7410 158<414 1999 158 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100000583X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100000583X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smil Vaclav NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 158(1999-06), 414-429 0305-7410 158<414 1999 158 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 188456325 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge