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

Cook Islands currently reports 2.82 against 2.17 in Barbados, a difference of 0.6514.

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.

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).