Jamaica vs Suriname: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Jamaica
0.7152
in 2023
Suriname
0.7008
in 2023
Jamaica rank
39th
Suriname rank
41st

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

  • Jamaica
  • Suriname
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How they compare

Jamaica currently reports 0.7152 against 0.7008 in Suriname, a difference of 0.0144.

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

Jamaica ranks 39th and Suriname ranks 41st of 163 countries.

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About this data

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

Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).