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

China
0.1335
in 2023
Costa Rica
0.0815
in 2023
China rank
158th
Costa Rica rank
161st

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

  • China
  • Costa Rica
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How they compare

China currently reports 0.1335 against 0.0815 in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.0521.

That makes China's figure about 1.6 times Costa Rica's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Costa Rica ahead.

China ranks 158th and Costa Rica ranks 161st 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
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Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).