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

Malawi

0.2143

in 2023

Uruguay

0.2207

in 2023

Malawi rank

128th

Uruguay rank

125th

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

Uruguay currently reports 0.2207 against 0.2143 in Malawi, a difference of 0.0064.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Uruguay ahead.

Malawi ranks 128th and Uruguay ranks 125th 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).