Australia vs Nicaragua: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Australia

0.3331

in 2023

Nicaragua

0.314

in 2023

Australia rank

95th

Nicaragua rank

98th

Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops over time

Australia currently reports 0.3331 against 0.314 in Nicaragua, a difference of 0.0191.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Nicaragua ahead.

Australia ranks 95th and Nicaragua ranks 98th of 163 countries.

Indicator: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 163 places, 10,097 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).