Of the total area that is used by humans (Agriculture, Urban and Built-up Land),

  • urban and built-up land is 1m km²,
  • agriculture is 48m km²,

so agriculture is 48 of 49 millions km² used, that’s 98%. The remaining 2% are all streets and housing and other infrastructure together.

  • fatalicus@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Because they are habitable? You can build on them, or use boats and such to live on them.

    But if we count boats, then a large part of the oceans should count as habitable as well.