Malaysia vs Zambia: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Malaysia

0.1788

in 2023

Zambia

0.1735

in 2023

Malaysia rank

145th

Zambia rank

148th

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

Malaysia currently reports 0.1788 against 0.1735 in Zambia, a difference of 0.0052.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 49 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Zambia ahead.

Malaysia ranks 145th and Zambia ranks 148th 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).