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
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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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Indicator
Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Source
Taylor and Rising, and United Nations (2021) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
179 places, 4,296 data points, 1780–2010
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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.