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

Costa Rica

0.0815

in 2023

Laos

0.1071

in 2023

Costa Rica rank

161st

Laos rank

159th

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

Laos currently reports 0.1071 against 0.0815 in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.0257.

That makes Laos's figure about 1.3 times Costa Rica's.

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

Costa Rica ranks 161st and Laos ranks 159th 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).