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

South Korea
0.3518
in 2023
Portugal
0.3471
in 2017
South Korea rank
88th
Portugal rank
91st

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

  • South Korea
  • Portugal
0.250.50.7511.21.5196119922023

How they compare

South Korea currently reports 0.3518 against 0.3471 in Portugal, a difference of 0.0048.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Portugal ahead.

South Korea ranks 88th and Portugal ranks 91st 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
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Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).