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Namibia vs South Africa: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Namibia
0.2735
in 2023
South Africa
0.2729
in 2023
Namibia rank
113th
South Africa rank
115th

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

  • Namibia
  • South Africa
0.20.40.60.81196119922023

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 0.2735 against 0.2729 in South Africa, a difference of 0.0005.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was South Africa ahead.

Namibia ranks 113th and South Africa ranks 115th of 163 countries.

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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).