Malawi vs New Zealand: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Malawi
0.2143
in 2023
New Zealand
0.2072
in 2023
Malawi rank
128th
New Zealand rank
129th

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

  • Malawi
  • New Zealand
0.20.40.60.811.2196119922023

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 0.2143 against 0.2072 in New Zealand, a difference of 0.0071.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1961 it was New Zealand ahead.

Malawi ranks 128th and New Zealand ranks 129th 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).