Colombia vs Mexico: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Colombia
0.1938
in 2023
Mexico
0.2013
in 2023
Colombia rank
136th
Mexico rank
133rd

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

  • Colombia
  • Mexico
0.20.40.60.81196119922023

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 0.2013 against 0.1938 in Colombia, a difference of 0.0075.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Mexico ahead.

Colombia ranks 136th and Mexico ranks 133rd 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).