Statizoid

Portugal vs Spain: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops

Portugal
0.3471
in 2017
Spain
0.3471
in 2017
Portugal rank
91st
Spain rank
90th

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

  • Portugal
  • Spain
0.250.50.7511.21.5196119892017

How they compare

Spain currently reports 0.3471 against 0.3471 in Portugal, a difference of 0.0001.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Spain ahead.

Portugal ranks 91st and Spain ranks 90th 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
Last refreshed

Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).