Canada vs Malaysia: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Canada
0.1804
in 2023
Malaysia
0.1788
in 2023
Canada rank
144th
Malaysia rank
145th

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

  • Canada
  • Malaysia
0.20.40.60.81196119922023

How they compare

Canada currently reports 0.1804 against 0.1788 in Malaysia, a difference of 0.0016.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malaysia ahead.

Canada ranks 144th and Malaysia ranks 145th of 163 countries.

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About this data

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

Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).