Cook Islands vs Gambia: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Cook Islands

2.82

in 2023

Gambia

3.35

in 2023

Cook Islands rank

5th

Gambia rank

3rd

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

Gambia currently reports 3.35 against 2.82 in Cook Islands, a difference of 0.5274.

That makes Gambia's figure about 1.2 times Cook Islands's.

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

Cook Islands ranks 5th and Gambia ranks 3rd 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).