Italy vs United Kingdom: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Italy

0.5062

in 2017

United Kingdom

0.5175

in 2023

Italy rank

65th

United Kingdom rank

62nd

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

United Kingdom currently reports 0.5175 against 0.5062 in Italy, a difference of 0.0113.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Italy ranks 65th and United Kingdom ranks 62nd 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).