Ecuador vs Viet Nam: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Ecuador
6.20 million
in 2010
Viet Nam
6.73 million
in 2010
Ecuador rank
78th
Viet Nam rank
76th
Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time
- Ecuador
- Viet Nam
How they compare
Viet Nam currently reports 6.73 million against 6.20 million in Ecuador, a difference of 536,000.
That makes Viet Nam's figure about 1.1 times Ecuador's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1780 it was Ecuador ahead.
Ecuador ranks 78th and Viet Nam ranks 76th of 179 countries.
Across the 24 decades both report, Ecuador averaged higher in 6 and Viet Nam in 18.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Ecuador | Viet Nam | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1780s | 911,915 | 707,776 | 204,139 | Ecuador |
| 1790s | 879,416 | 755,134 | 124,282 | Ecuador |
| 1800s | 843,211 | 806,386 | 36,825 | Ecuador |
| 1810s | 807,962 | 863,568 | 55,606 | Viet Nam |
| 1820s | 762,490 | 920,517 | 158,027 | Viet Nam |
| 1830s | 938,426 | 1.04 million | 102,774 | Viet Nam |
| 1840s | 1.03 million | 1.17 million | 132,920 | Viet Nam |
| 1850s | 1.14 million | 1.30 million | 153,260 | Viet Nam |
| 1860s | 1.23 million | 1.42 million | 189,930 | Viet Nam |
| 1870s | 1.32 million | 1.55 million | 230,200 | Viet Nam |
| 1880s | 1.46 million | 1.88 million | 420,440 | Viet Nam |
| 1890s | 1.57 million | 2.22 million | 652,650 | Viet Nam |
| 1900s | 1.67 million | 2.57 million | 891,970 | Viet Nam |
| 1910s | 1.87 million | 2.91 million | 1.04 million | Viet Nam |
| 1920s | 2.00 million | 3.26 million | 1.25 million | Viet Nam |
| 1930s | 2.11 million | 3.62 million | 1.51 million | Viet Nam |
| 1940s | 3.06 million | 3.99 million | 930,970 | Viet Nam |
| 1950s | 3.46 million | 4.38 million | 927,970 | Viet Nam |
| 1960s | 4.43 million | 5.48 million | 1.05 million | Viet Nam |
| 1970s | 4.59 million | 5.58 million | 989,350 | Viet Nam |
| 1980s | 6.00 million | 5.93 million | 69,990 | Ecuador |
| 1990s | 6.91 million | 5.86 million | 1.05 million | Ecuador |
| 2000s | 6.66 million | 6.29 million | 368,650 | Ecuador |
| 2010s | 6.20 million | 6.73 million | 536,000 | Viet Nam |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, Ecuador or Viet Nam?
- Viet Nam, at 6.73 million against 6.20 million in Ecuador as of 2010.
- What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between Ecuador and Viet Nam?
- 536,000, with Viet Nam ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Ecuador and Viet Nam?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
- How do Ecuador and Viet Nam rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
- Ecuador ranks 78th and Viet Nam ranks 76th 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.