Iraq vs Mali: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Iraq

0.4155

in 2023

Mali

0.3931

in 2023

Iraq rank

81st

Mali rank

84th

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

Iraq currently reports 0.4155 against 0.3931 in Mali, a difference of 0.0224.

That makes Iraq's figure about 1.1 times Mali's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Mali ahead.

Iraq ranks 81st and Mali ranks 84th 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).