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

Costa Rica

0.0815

in 2023

Kuwait

0.0671

in 2023

Costa Rica rank

161st

Kuwait rank

162nd

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

Costa Rica currently reports 0.0815 against 0.0671 in Kuwait, a difference of 0.0143.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.2 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Kuwait ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 161st and Kuwait ranks 162nd 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).