Canada vs South Africa: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time
- Canada
- South Africa
How they compare
South Africa currently reports 78.69 million against 59.86 million in Canada, a difference of 18.83 million.
That makes South Africa's figure about 1.3 times Canada's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1780 it was South Africa ahead.
Canada ranks 15th and South Africa ranks 12th of 179 countries.
Across the 24 decades both report, Canada averaged higher in 10 and South Africa in 14.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1780s | 11,346 | 1.40 million | 1.39 million | South Africa |
| 1790s | 15,657 | 1.40 million | 1.38 million | South Africa |
| 1800s | 33,746 | 1.38 million | 1.35 million | South Africa |
| 1810s | 128,716 | 1.37 million | 1.24 million | South Africa |
| 1820s | 127,485 | 1.35 million | 1.22 million | South Africa |
| 1830s | 276,097 | 1.32 million | 1.04 million | South Africa |
| 1840s | 587,626 | 1.29 million | 701,114 | South Africa |
| 1850s | 1.78 million | 1.25 million | 532,590 | Canada |
| 1860s | 4.01 million | 2.86 million | 1.15 million | Canada |
| 1870s | 9.89 million | 4.61 million | 5.29 million | Canada |
| 1880s | 12.81 million | 9.09 million | 3.72 million | Canada |
| 1890s | 17.14 million | 11.67 million | 5.47 million | Canada |
| 1900s | 29.10 million | 16.95 million | 12.15 million | Canada |
| 1910s | 31.25 million | 23.80 million | 7.46 million | Canada |
| 1920s | 45.87 million | 30.75 million | 15.12 million | Canada |
| 1930s | 55.24 million | 39.83 million | 15.41 million | Canada |
| 1940s | 57.20 million | 50.68 million | 6.52 million | Canada |
| 1950s | 61.80 million | 69.49 million | 7.68 million | South Africa |
| 1960s | 61.94 million | 90.05 million | 28.11 million | South Africa |
| 1970s | 61.23 million | 83.68 million | 22.45 million | South Africa |
| 1980s | 58.14 million | 81.58 million | 23.45 million | South Africa |
| 1990s | 59.51 million | 82.89 million | 23.38 million | South Africa |
| 2000s | 59.26 million | 80.43 million | 21.17 million | South Africa |
| 2010s | 59.86 million | 78.69 million | 18.83 million | South Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, Canada or South Africa?
- South Africa, at 78.69 million against 59.86 million in Canada as of 2010.
- What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between Canada and South Africa?
- 18.83 million, with South Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and South Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
- How do Canada and South Africa rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
- Canada ranks 15th and South Africa ranks 12th 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.