Ecuador vs Malawi: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Ecuador
0.2173
in 2023
Malawi
0.2143
in 2023
Ecuador rank
127th
Malawi rank
128th

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

  • Ecuador
  • Malawi
0.20.40.60.811.2196119922023

How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 0.2173 against 0.2143 in Malawi, a difference of 0.003.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Ecuador ranks 127th and Malawi ranks 128th 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
Last refreshed

Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).