Germany vs Lesotho: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Germany
0.7532
in 2017
Lesotho
0.7618
in 2023
Germany rank
33rd
Lesotho rank
32nd

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

  • Germany
  • Lesotho
0.50.7511.21.51.8196119922023

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 0.7618 against 0.7532 in Germany, a difference of 0.0086.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Lesotho ahead.

Germany ranks 33rd and Lesotho ranks 32nd 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).