Barbados vs Cook Islands: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops
Barbados
2.17
in 2023
Cook Islands
2.82
in 2023
Barbados rank
8th
Cook Islands rank
5th
Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops over time
- Barbados
- Cook Islands
How they compare
Cook Islands currently reports 2.82 against 2.17 in Barbados, a difference of 0.65.
That makes Cook Islands's figure about 1.3 times Barbados's.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Cook Islands ahead.
Barbados ranks 8th and Cook Islands ranks 5th of 163 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Barbados averaged higher in 2 and Cook Islands in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Barbados | Cook Islands | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.9256 | 0.9005 | 0.0251 | Barbados |
| 1970s | 1.31 | 0.7641 | 0.5443 | Barbados |
| 1980s | 1.64 | 1.68 | 0.039 | Cook Islands |
| 1990s | 2.22 | 3.19 | 0.9715 | Cook Islands |
| 2000s | 2.25 | 3.81 | 1.56 | Cook Islands |
| 2010s | 2.4 | 2.71 | 0.3007 | Cook Islands |
| 2020s | 2.27 | 2.82 | 0.5527 | Cook Islands |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops, Barbados or Cook Islands?
- Cook Islands, at 2.82 against 2.17 in Barbados as of 2023.
- What is the difference in arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops between Barbados and Cook Islands?
- 0.65, with Cook Islands ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Barbados and Cook Islands?
- 63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
- How do Barbados and Cook Islands rank globally for arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops?
- Barbados ranks 8th and Cook Islands ranks 5th of 163 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- 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, published as Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).