Chile vs Costa Rica: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Chile

0.0922

in 2023

Costa Rica

0.0815

in 2023

Chile rank

160th

Costa Rica rank

161st

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

Chile currently reports 0.0922 against 0.0815 in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.0108.

That makes Chile's figure about 1.1 times Costa Rica's.

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

Chile ranks 160th and Costa Rica ranks 161st 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).