Factoring in population growth, Bangladesh’s agricultural land shrank from 186 hectares per thousand people in 1976 to 81 in 2010 – and cropland shrank from 137 to just 58. Such massive reductions in land availability might have jeopardised food security, but productivity gains more than compensated for the loss. For example, since 1976, even whilst cropland per person declined annually by 2.5 percent, crop production per person increased annually at 1.2 percent in tonnage and 1.1 percent in real value, which meant increased food availability and agricultural income per hectare.