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

Ecuador
0.2173
in 2023
New Zealand
0.2072
in 2023
Ecuador rank
127th
New Zealand rank
129th

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

  • Ecuador
  • New Zealand
0.20.40.60.81196119922023

How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 0.2173 against 0.2072 in New Zealand, a difference of 0.0101.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was New Zealand ahead.

Ecuador ranks 127th and New Zealand ranks 129th 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).