Burundi vs Lesotho: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Burundi

0.8045

in 2023

Lesotho

0.7618

in 2023

Burundi rank

30th

Lesotho rank

32nd

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

Burundi currently reports 0.8045 against 0.7618 in Lesotho, a difference of 0.0427.

That makes Burundi's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 25 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Lesotho ahead.

Burundi ranks 30th and Lesotho ranks 32nd 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).