Statizoid

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

China
0.1335
in 2023
Pakistan
0.1437
in 2023
China rank
158th
Pakistan rank
155th

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

  • China
  • Pakistan
0.20.40.60.81196119922023

How they compare

Pakistan currently reports 0.1437 against 0.1335 in China, a difference of 0.0102.

That makes Pakistan's figure about 1.1 times China's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Pakistan ahead.

China ranks 158th and Pakistan ranks 155th 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).