Agricultural machinery refers to the number of wheel and crawler tractors (excluding garden tractors) in use in agriculture at the end of the calendar year specified or during the first quarter of the following year. Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.

Number of agricultural tractors per per 100 sq. km of arable land (units per 100 sq. km)

1970199020002005
Argentina6510090
Bolivia142519
Brazil59154175163
Chile87128307372
Colombia6497
Cuba223226217206
Ecuador185491
Mexico52138119107
Panama56102147
Paraguay60727070
Peru4336
Uruguay164264266262
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)66