Liberia vs Madagascar: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Liberia

0.4759

in 2023

Madagascar

0.4929

in 2023

Liberia rank

72nd

Madagascar rank

70th

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

Madagascar currently reports 0.4929 against 0.4759 in Liberia, a difference of 0.0171.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Madagascar ahead.

Liberia ranks 72nd and Madagascar ranks 70th 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).