Democratic Republic of Congo vs Sweden: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Democratic Republic of Congo
0.5521
in 2023
Sweden
0.575
in 2017
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
55th
Sweden rank
54th

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

  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Sweden
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How they compare

Sweden currently reports 0.575 against 0.5521 in Democratic Republic of Congo, a difference of 0.0229.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Sweden ahead.

Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 55th and Sweden ranks 54th 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).