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

France

0.6004

in 2017

Iceland

0.6013

in 2023

France rank

50th

Iceland rank

49th

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

Iceland currently reports 0.6013 against 0.6004 in France, a difference of 0.0009.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Iceland ahead.

France ranks 50th and Iceland ranks 49th 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).