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

Malta

0.4667

in 2017

Romania

0.4411

in 2017

Malta rank

74th

Romania rank

77th

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

Malta currently reports 0.4667 against 0.4411 in Romania, a difference of 0.0256.

That makes Malta's figure about 1.1 times Romania's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Romania ahead.

Malta ranks 74th and Romania ranks 77th of 163 regions.

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).