Panama vs Somalia: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Panama
0.736
in 2023
Somalia
0.7485
in 2023
Panama rank
35th
Somalia rank
34th

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

  • Panama
  • Somalia
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How they compare

Somalia currently reports 0.7485 against 0.736 in Panama, a difference of 0.0125.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Somalia ahead.

Panama ranks 35th and Somalia ranks 34th 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).