Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands: Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops was 0.8616 in 2023. ▼ Falling
Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Solomon Islands, 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
Solomon Islands recorded 0.8616 for arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in 2023.
That represents a change of up 2.3% on the previous year and up 4.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Solomon Islands peaked at 1 in 1961 and was at its lowest, 0.481, in 1997.
Solomon Islands ranks 26th of 163 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 63 years of available data.
Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Solomon Islands, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1 | — |
| 1962 | 0.9884 | -1.2% |
| 1963 | 0.9563 | -3.3% |
| 1964 | 0.929 | -2.9% |
| 1965 | 0.9244 | -0.5% |
| 1966 | 0.9414 | +1.8% |
| 1967 | 0.9244 | -1.8% |
| 1968 | 0.9769 | +5.7% |
| 1969 | 0.8891 | -9.0% |
| 1970 | 0.8161 | -8.2% |
| 1971 | 0.7959 | -2.5% |
| 1972 | 0.8186 | +2.8% |
| 1973 | 0.8052 | -1.6% |
| 1974 | 0.7894 | -2.0% |
| 1975 | 0.7643 | -3.2% |
| 1976 | 0.7352 | -3.8% |
| 1977 | 0.7826 | +6.4% |
| 1978 | 0.8084 | +3.3% |
| 1979 | 0.7118 | -11.9% |
| 1980 | 0.6974 | -2.0% |
| 1981 | 0.6341 | -9.1% |
| 1982 | 0.698 | +10.1% |
| 1983 | 0.6979 | -0.0% |
| 1984 | 0.6089 | -12.8% |
| 1985 | 0.5868 | -3.6% |
| 1986 | 0.5966 | +1.7% |
| 1987 | 0.5783 | -3.1% |
| 1988 | 0.5578 | -3.5% |
| 1989 | 0.5875 | +5.3% |
| 1990 | 0.5907 | +0.5% |
| 1991 | 0.5541 | -6.2% |
| 1992 | 0.5247 | -5.3% |
| 1993 | 0.5327 | +1.5% |
| 1994 | 0.5283 | -0.8% |
| 1995 | 0.5187 | -1.8% |
| 1996 | 0.5063 | -2.4% |
| 1997 | 0.481 | -5.0% |
| 1998 | 0.512 | +6.4% |
| 1999 | 0.5877 | +14.8% |
| 2000 | 0.5829 | -0.8% |
| 2001 | 0.6535 | +12.1% |
| 2002 | 0.6404 | -2.0% |
| 2003 | 0.66 | +3.1% |
| 2004 | 0.6168 | -6.5% |
| 2005 | 0.5775 | -6.4% |
| 2006 | 0.5338 | -7.6% |
| 2007 | 0.5274 | -1.2% |
| 2008 | 0.5342 | +1.3% |
| 2009 | 0.5516 | +3.3% |
| 2010 | 0.796 | +44.3% |
| 2011 | 0.7806 | -1.9% |
| 2012 | 0.8432 | +8.0% |
| 2013 | 0.8266 | -2.0% |
| 2014 | 0.844 | +2.1% |
| 2015 | 0.8313 | -1.5% |
| 2016 | 0.8631 | +3.8% |
| 2017 | 0.8445 | -2.2% |
| 2018 | 0.8402 | -0.5% |
| 2019 | 0.9027 | +7.4% |
| 2020 | 0.8793 | -2.6% |
| 2021 | 0.8316 | -5.4% |
| 2022 | 0.842 | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 0.8616 | +2.3% |
Solomon Islands compared with similar countries
- Solomon Islands's 0.8616 is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.2966, 2.9× the median. (43 countries reporting)
- Solomon Islands's 0.8616 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 0.4156, 2.1× the median. (28 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Solomon Islands 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | +44.3% | 0.5516 | 0.796 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.9478 | 0.8891 | 1 | 9 |
| 1970s | 0.7827 | 0.7118 | 0.8186 | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.6243 | 0.5578 | 0.698 | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.5336 | 0.481 | 0.5907 | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.5878 | 0.5274 | 0.66 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8372 | 0.7806 | 0.9027 | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.8536 | 0.8316 | 0.8793 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Solomon Islands
- 23 Cape Verde 0.9671 compare
- 24 El Salvador 0.921 compare
- 25 Sierra Leone 0.8698 compare
- 27 Austria 0.8307 compare
- 28 Zimbabwe 0.8285 compare
- 29 Ireland 0.8275 compare
More reference data data for Solomon Islands
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.0077 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 0.0075 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0154 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.0002 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 0.0154 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.0259 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 0.02 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 0.0427 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0894 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.0009 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Solomon Islands?
- Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops in Solomon Islands was 0.8616 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 Solomon Islands?
- The highest recorded value was 1 in 1961.
- What is the lowest arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops recorded in Solomon Islands?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.481 in 1997.
- How does Solomon Islands rank for arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops?
- Solomon Islands ranks 26th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops rising or falling in Solomon Islands?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Solomon Islands 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).