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

Germany

0.7532

in 2017

Somalia

0.7485

in 2023

Germany rank

33rd

Somalia rank

34th

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

Germany currently reports 0.7532 against 0.7485 in Somalia, a difference of 0.0047.

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

Germany ranks 33rd and Somalia ranks 34th 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).