Japan vs Puerto Rico: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Japan

0.9926

in 2023

Puerto Rico

1.05

in 2023

Japan rank

22nd

Puerto Rico rank

20th

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

Puerto Rico currently reports 1.05 against 0.9926 in Japan, a difference of 0.0589.

That makes Puerto Rico's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Puerto Rico ahead.

Japan ranks 22nd and Puerto Rico ranks 20th 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).