Nigeria vs Uruguay: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Nigeria

0.2491

in 2023

Uruguay

0.2207

in 2023

Nigeria rank

123rd

Uruguay rank

125th

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

Nigeria currently reports 0.2491 against 0.2207 in Uruguay, a difference of 0.0285.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Uruguay ahead.

Nigeria ranks 123rd and Uruguay ranks 125th 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).