Finland vs France: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Finland
0.616
in 2017
France
0.6004
in 2017
Finland rank
47th
France rank
50th

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

  • Finland
  • France
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How they compare

Finland currently reports 0.616 against 0.6004 in France, a difference of 0.0156.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was France ahead.

Finland ranks 47th and France ranks 50th 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
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Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).