Mauritius vs Papua New Guinea: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Mauritius

1.08

in 2023

Papua New Guinea

1.15

in 2023

Mauritius rank

18th

Papua New Guinea rank

17th

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

Papua New Guinea currently reports 1.15 against 1.08 in Mauritius, a difference of 0.0677.

That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Mauritius's.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Mauritius ranks 18th and Papua New Guinea ranks 17th 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).