Malta vs Netherlands: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Malta
0.4667
in 2017
Netherlands
0.4718
in 2017
Malta rank
74th
Netherlands rank
73rd

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

  • Malta
  • Netherlands
0.40.60.81196119892017

How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 0.4718 against 0.4667 in Malta, a difference of 0.0052.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Netherlands ahead.

Malta ranks 74th and Netherlands ranks 73rd of 163 regions.

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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).