Afghanistan vs Algeria: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Afghanistan
36.63 million
in 2010
Algeria
36.81 million
in 2010
Afghanistan rank
25th
Algeria rank
24th
Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
How they compare
Algeria currently reports 36.81 million against 36.63 million in Afghanistan, a difference of 178,600.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1780 it was Algeria ahead.
Afghanistan ranks 25th and Algeria ranks 24th of 179 countries.
Across the 24 decades both report, Afghanistan averaged higher in 2 and Algeria in 22.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Afghanistan | Algeria | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1780s | 4.11 million | 9.02 million | 4.91 million | Algeria |
| 1790s | 4.45 million | 9.35 million | 4.91 million | Algeria |
| 1800s | 4.82 million | 9.69 million | 4.87 million | Algeria |
| 1810s | 5.22 million | 10.03 million | 4.81 million | Algeria |
| 1820s | 5.65 million | 10.38 million | 4.73 million | Algeria |
| 1830s | 6.17 million | 12.22 million | 6.05 million | Algeria |
| 1840s | 6.88 million | 14.08 million | 7.20 million | Algeria |
| 1850s | 7.69 million | 15.96 million | 8.27 million | Algeria |
| 1860s | 8.59 million | 17.85 million | 9.26 million | Algeria |
| 1870s | 9.62 million | 19.76 million | 10.14 million | Algeria |
| 1880s | 10.92 million | 21.69 million | 10.77 million | Algeria |
| 1890s | 12.52 million | 23.64 million | 11.12 million | Algeria |
| 1900s | 14.35 million | 25.61 million | 11.26 million | Algeria |
| 1910s | 16.44 million | 27.60 million | 11.15 million | Algeria |
| 1920s | 19.22 million | 29.59 million | 10.37 million | Algeria |
| 1930s | 22.27 million | 31.59 million | 9.32 million | Algeria |
| 1940s | 25.66 million | 33.66 million | 8.00 million | Algeria |
| 1950s | 29.32 million | 35.68 million | 6.36 million | Algeria |
| 1960s | 36.28 million | 44.09 million | 7.81 million | Algeria |
| 1970s | 36.59 million | 40.75 million | 4.16 million | Algeria |
| 1980s | 36.66 million | 39.80 million | 3.14 million | Algeria |
| 1990s | 36.68 million | 36.21 million | 468,300 | Afghanistan |
| 2000s | 36.61 million | 36.55 million | 61,600 | Afghanistan |
| 2010s | 36.63 million | 36.81 million | 178,600 | Algeria |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, Afghanistan or Algeria?
- Algeria, at 36.81 million against 36.63 million in Afghanistan as of 2010.
- What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between Afghanistan and Algeria?
- 178,600, with Algeria ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Afghanistan and Algeria?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
- How do Afghanistan and Algeria rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
- Afghanistan ranks 25th and Algeria ranks 24th of 179 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Taylor and Rising, and United Nations (2021) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Has the world passed peak agricultural land?. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Agricultural land is the sum of cropland and pasture used for grazing livestock. This is shown for three sources, which use different methods of estimation. While they disagree on how much land is used for agriculture, and the exact date that it peaked, they do all agree that we have passed the peak.