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

Ecuador
0.2173
in 2023
Saudi Arabia
0.2389
in 2023
Ecuador rank
127th
Saudi Arabia rank
124th

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

  • Ecuador
  • Saudi Arabia
0.20.40.60.81196119922023

How they compare

Saudi Arabia currently reports 0.2389 against 0.2173 in Ecuador, a difference of 0.0217.

That makes Saudi Arabia's figure about 1.1 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Saudi Arabia ahead.

Ecuador ranks 127th and Saudi Arabia ranks 124th 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).