Brazil vs United States: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Brazil

0.3019

in 2023

United States

0.3106

in 2023

Brazil rank

103rd

United States rank

100th

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

United States currently reports 0.3106 against 0.3019 in Brazil, a difference of 0.0087.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was United States ahead.

Brazil ranks 103rd and United States ranks 100th 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).