Japan vs Liberia: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Japan
2.48 million
in 2010
Liberia
2.20 million
in 2010
Japan rank
103rd
Liberia rank
106th
Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time
- Japan
- Liberia
How they compare
Japan currently reports 2.48 million against 2.20 million in Liberia, a difference of 287,960.
That makes Japan's figure about 1.1 times Liberia's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Japan has been ahead every year.
Japan ranks 103rd and Liberia ranks 106th of 179 countries.
Japan has averaged higher in every one of the 24 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Liberia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1780s | 1.39 million | 346,224 | 1.04 million | Japan |
| 1790s | 1.39 million | 351,942 | 1.04 million | Japan |
| 1800s | 1.39 million | 357,715 | 1.04 million | Japan |
| 1810s | 1.44 million | 363,919 | 1.08 million | Japan |
| 1820s | 1.49 million | 372,688 | 1.12 million | Japan |
| 1830s | 1.54 million | 381,675 | 1.16 million | Japan |
| 1840s | 1.59 million | 391,028 | 1.20 million | Japan |
| 1850s | 1.64 million | 400,098 | 1.24 million | Japan |
| 1860s | 1.71 million | 409,360 | 1.30 million | Japan |
| 1870s | 1.77 million | 425,290 | 1.34 million | Japan |
| 1880s | 1.89 million | 441,568 | 1.45 million | Japan |
| 1890s | 2.05 million | 459,469 | 1.59 million | Japan |
| 1900s | 2.28 million | 478,030 | 1.80 million | Japan |
| 1910s | 2.52 million | 498,742 | 2.02 million | Japan |
| 1920s | 2.79 million | 682,813 | 2.11 million | Japan |
| 1930s | 3.12 million | 938,565 | 2.18 million | Japan |
| 1940s | 3.48 million | 1.28 million | 2.19 million | Japan |
| 1950s | 3.74 million | 1.75 million | 1.99 million | Japan |
| 1960s | 4.02 million | 2.23 million | 1.80 million | Japan |
| 1970s | 3.67 million | 2.22 million | 1.45 million | Japan |
| 1980s | 3.26 million | 2.18 million | 1.08 million | Japan |
| 1990s | 3.08 million | 2.21 million | 872,890 | Japan |
| 2000s | 2.91 million | 2.20 million | 707,910 | Japan |
| 2010s | 2.48 million | 2.20 million | 287,960 | Japan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, Japan or Liberia?
- Japan, at 2.48 million against 2.20 million in Liberia as of 2010.
- What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between Japan and Liberia?
- 287,960, with Japan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Liberia?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
- How do Japan and Liberia rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
- Japan ranks 103rd and Liberia ranks 106th 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.