Botswana vs Spain: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Botswana

0.3512

in 2023

Spain

0.3471

in 2017

Botswana rank

89th

Spain rank

90th

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

Botswana currently reports 0.3512 against 0.3471 in Spain, a difference of 0.0041.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Spain ahead.

Botswana ranks 89th and Spain ranks 90th 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).