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

Cuba

4.61

in 2023

Gambia

3.35

in 2023

Cuba rank

1st

Gambia rank

3rd

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

Cuba currently reports 4.61 against 3.35 in Gambia, a difference of 1.26.

That makes Cuba's figure about 1.4 times Gambia's.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Gambia ahead.

Cuba ranks 1st 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).