Japan vs Sierra Leone: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time
- Japan
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
Sierra Leone currently reports 2.61 million against 2.48 million in Japan, a difference of 130,240.
That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 1780 it was Japan ahead.
Japan ranks 103rd and Sierra Leone ranks 102nd of 179 countries.
Across the 24 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 23 and Sierra Leone in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1780s | 1.39 million | 596,883 | 790,677 | Japan |
| 1790s | 1.39 million | 616,826 | 774,404 | Japan |
| 1800s | 1.39 million | 637,921 | 755,699 | Japan |
| 1810s | 1.44 million | 659,748 | 784,402 | Japan |
| 1820s | 1.49 million | 692,914 | 801,436 | Japan |
| 1830s | 1.54 million | 728,051 | 816,249 | Japan |
| 1840s | 1.59 million | 764,763 | 828,707 | Japan |
| 1850s | 1.64 million | 803,200 | 838,440 | Japan |
| 1860s | 1.71 million | 843,789 | 864,721 | Japan |
| 1870s | 1.77 million | 901,293 | 867,817 | Japan |
| 1880s | 1.89 million | 962,832 | 929,918 | Japan |
| 1890s | 2.05 million | 1.03 million | 1.02 million | Japan |
| 1900s | 2.28 million | 1.10 million | 1.18 million | Japan |
| 1910s | 2.52 million | 1.17 million | 1.35 million | Japan |
| 1920s | 2.79 million | 1.34 million | 1.45 million | Japan |
| 1930s | 3.12 million | 1.55 million | 1.57 million | Japan |
| 1940s | 3.48 million | 1.79 million | 1.69 million | Japan |
| 1950s | 3.74 million | 2.04 million | 1.70 million | Japan |
| 1960s | 4.02 million | 2.37 million | 1.65 million | Japan |
| 1970s | 3.67 million | 2.41 million | 1.26 million | Japan |
| 1980s | 3.26 million | 2.45 million | 815,880 | Japan |
| 1990s | 3.08 million | 2.45 million | 629,620 | Japan |
| 2000s | 2.91 million | 2.55 million | 362,250 | Japan |
| 2010s | 2.48 million | 2.61 million | 130,240 | Sierra Leone |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, Japan or Sierra Leone?
- Sierra Leone, at 2.61 million against 2.48 million in Japan as of 2010.
- What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between Japan and Sierra Leone?
- 130,240, with Sierra Leone ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Sierra Leone?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
- How do Japan and Sierra Leone rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
- Japan ranks 103rd and Sierra Leone ranks 102nd 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.