Maldives vs Norway: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Maldives

1.91

in 2023

Norway

1.59

in 2023

Maldives rank

9th

Norway rank

12th

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

Maldives currently reports 1.91 against 1.59 in Norway, a difference of 0.3181.

That makes Maldives's figure about 1.2 times Norway's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Norway ahead.

Maldives ranks 9th and Norway ranks 12th 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).