Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Maldives
Maldives: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops was 1.91 in 2023. ▲ Rising
Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Maldives, 1961–2023
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.
Analysis
Maldives recorded 1.91 for arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in 2023.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.7% on the previous year and down 1.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Maldives peaked at 1.96 in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.7106, in 1986.
That places Maldives 9th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Maldives, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1 | — |
| 1962 | 0.9636 | -3.6% |
| 1963 | 0.9291 | -3.6% |
| 1964 | 0.8978 | -3.4% |
| 1965 | 0.8745 | -2.6% |
| 1966 | 0.8008 | -8.4% |
| 1967 | 0.7807 | -2.5% |
| 1968 | 0.7657 | -1.9% |
| 1969 | 0.7563 | -1.2% |
| 1970 | 0.7164 | -5.3% |
| 1971 | 1.03 | +44.4% |
| 1972 | 1.08 | +3.9% |
| 1973 | 1.02 | -5.4% |
| 1974 | 1 | -1.3% |
| 1975 | 0.8933 | -11.0% |
| 1976 | 0.9336 | +4.5% |
| 1977 | 0.8793 | -5.8% |
| 1978 | 0.9133 | +3.9% |
| 1979 | 0.9314 | +2.0% |
| 1980 | 0.8467 | -9.1% |
| 1981 | 0.83 | -2.0% |
| 1982 | 0.7992 | -3.7% |
| 1983 | 0.7514 | -6.0% |
| 1984 | 0.7338 | -2.3% |
| 1985 | 0.72 | -1.9% |
| 1986 | 0.7106 | -1.3% |
| 1987 | 0.7357 | +3.5% |
| 1988 | 0.7253 | -1.4% |
| 1989 | 0.7552 | +4.1% |
| 1990 | 1.1 | +46.0% |
| 1991 | 1.36 | +23.2% |
| 1992 | 1.27 | -6.7% |
| 1999 | 1.12 | -11.8% |
| 2000 | 1.02 | -9.2% |
| 2001 | 1.11 | +9.6% |
| 2002 | 1.16 | +4.0% |
| 2003 | 0.9408 | -18.7% |
| 2004 | 0.763 | -18.9% |
| 2005 | 0.9745 | +27.7% |
| 2006 | 0.8738 | -10.3% |
| 2007 | 1.06 | +20.9% |
| 2008 | 1.08 | +1.8% |
| 2009 | 1.14 | +6.3% |
| 2010 | 1.56 | +36.5% |
| 2011 | 1.72 | +10.1% |
| 2012 | 1.86 | +8.1% |
| 2013 | 1.94 | +4.2% |
| 2014 | 1.86 | -3.9% |
| 2015 | 1.83 | -1.7% |
| 2016 | 1.78 | -2.4% |
| 2017 | 1.8 | +0.7% |
| 2018 | 1.81 | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 1.73 | -4.7% |
| 2020 | 1.71 | -1.1% |
| 2021 | 1.94 | +13.4% |
| 2022 | 1.96 | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 1.91 | -2.7% |
Maldives compared with similar countries
- Maldives's 1.91 is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 0.3111, 6.1× the median. (43 countries reporting)
- Maldives's 1.91 is above the median for South Asia, which is 0.3476, 5.5× the median. (6 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Maldives changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | +46.0% | 0.7552 | 1.1 |
| 1971 | +44.4% | 0.7164 | 1.03 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.8632 | 0.7563 | 1 | 9 |
| 1970s | 0.9399 | 0.7164 | 1.08 | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.7608 | 0.7106 | 0.8467 | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.21 | 1.1 | 1.36 | 4 |
| 2000s | 1.01 | 0.763 | 1.16 | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.79 | 1.56 | 1.94 | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.88 | 1.71 | 1.96 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Maldives
- 6 Tonga 2.61 compare
- 7 Saint Lucia 2.35 compare
- 8 Barbados 2.17 compare
- 10 Trinidad and Tobago 1.74 compare
- 11 French Polynesia 1.6 compare
- 12 Norway 1.59 compare
More reference data data for Maldives
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0011 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 0.0011 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0044 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Burning - Crop residues 0 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 0.0044 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 1.16 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - Crop Residues 0.012 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - Burning - Crop 0.0004 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Maldives?
- Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Maldives was 1.91 in 2023, according to 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.
- What is the highest arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 1.96 in 2022.
- What is the lowest arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7106 in 1986.
- How does Maldives rank for arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops?
- Maldives ranks 9th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Maldives data come from?
- The figures come from 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, published as part of Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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).