Faroe Islands vs Samoa: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Faroe Islands

1.24

in 2023

Samoa

1.41

in 2023

Faroe Islands rank

15th

Samoa rank

13th

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

Samoa currently reports 1.41 against 1.24 in Faroe Islands, a difference of 0.1704.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.1 times Faroe Islands's.

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

Faroe Islands ranks 15th and Samoa ranks 13th 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).