Benin vs Ghana: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Benin

0.409

in 2023

Ghana

0.3818

in 2023

Benin rank

82nd

Ghana rank

85th

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

Benin currently reports 0.409 against 0.3818 in Ghana, a difference of 0.0272.

That makes Benin's figure about 1.1 times Ghana's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Ghana ahead.

Benin ranks 82nd and Ghana ranks 85th 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).