El Salvador vs Sierra Leone: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops
El Salvador
0.921
in 2023
Sierra Leone
0.8698
in 2023
El Salvador rank
24th
Sierra Leone rank
25th
Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops over time
- El Salvador
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
El Salvador currently reports 0.921 against 0.8698 in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.0512.
That makes El Salvador's figure about 1.1 times Sierra Leone's.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Sierra Leone ahead.
El Salvador ranks 24th and Sierra Leone ranks 25th of 163 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, El Salvador averaged higher in 1 and Sierra Leone in 6.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | El Salvador | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.8429 | 0.9026 | 0.0597 | Sierra Leone |
| 1970s | 0.6381 | 0.8506 | 0.2125 | Sierra Leone |
| 1980s | 0.6794 | 0.8263 | 0.1469 | Sierra Leone |
| 1990s | 0.7137 | 0.8116 | 0.0979 | Sierra Leone |
| 2000s | 0.798 | 1.23 | 0.433 | Sierra Leone |
| 2010s | 0.8614 | 1.01 | 0.1438 | Sierra Leone |
| 2020s | 0.9011 | 0.8695 | 0.0316 | El Salvador |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops, El Salvador or Sierra Leone?
- El Salvador, at 0.921 against 0.8698 in Sierra Leone as of 2023.
- What is the difference in arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops between El Salvador and Sierra Leone?
- 0.0512, with El Salvador ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for El Salvador and Sierra Leone?
- 63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
- How do El Salvador and Sierra Leone rank globally for arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops?
- El Salvador ranks 24th and Sierra Leone ranks 25th of 163 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- 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, published as Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).