Iran vs United Arab Emirates: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Iran

0.1471

in 2023

United Arab Emirates

0.1609

in 2023

Iran rank

154th

United Arab Emirates rank

152nd

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

United Arab Emirates currently reports 0.1609 against 0.1471 in Iran, a difference of 0.0138.

That makes United Arab Emirates's figure about 1.1 times Iran's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was United Arab Emirates ahead.

Iran ranks 154th and United Arab Emirates ranks 152nd 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).