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

Ireland

0.8275

in 2017

Lesotho

0.7618

in 2023

Ireland rank

29th

Lesotho rank

32nd

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

Ireland currently reports 0.8275 against 0.7618 in Lesotho, a difference of 0.0657.

That makes Ireland's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 19 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Lesotho ahead.

Ireland ranks 29th and Lesotho ranks 32nd of 163 regions.

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).