Egypt vs India: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Egypt

0.1982

in 2023

India

0.19

in 2023

Egypt rank

135th

India rank

138th

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

Egypt currently reports 0.1982 against 0.19 in India, a difference of 0.0082.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was India ahead.

Egypt ranks 135th and India ranks 138th 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).