Dataset
Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops
owid.arable-land-pin
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About
Index of arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (where values in 1961 are equal to 1.0).
Cite as: 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. “Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops – FAO” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Land, Inputs and Sustainability: Land Use”; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Production: Production Indices” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1961–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-05-22
- Units
- not stated
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/arable-land-pin
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| arable_land_per_crop_output | number | Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |