Kiribati vs South Korea: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Kiribati

0.3788

in 2023

South Korea

0.3518

in 2023

Kiribati rank

86th

South Korea rank

88th

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

Kiribati currently reports 0.3788 against 0.3518 in South Korea, a difference of 0.027.

That makes Kiribati's figure about 1.1 times South Korea's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was South Korea ahead.

Kiribati ranks 86th and South Korea ranks 88th 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).