Laos vs Niger: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Laos

0.1071

in 2023

Niger

0.1361

in 2023

Laos rank

159th

Niger rank

157th

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

Niger currently reports 0.1361 against 0.1071 in Laos, a difference of 0.029.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.3 times Laos's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Niger ahead.

Laos ranks 159th and Niger ranks 157th 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).