Japan vs Togo: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?

Japan
2.48 million
in 2010
Togo
2.71 million
in 2010
Japan rank
103rd
Togo rank
100th

Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time

  • Japan
  • Togo
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How they compare

Togo currently reports 2.71 million against 2.48 million in Japan, a difference of 225,130.

That makes Togo'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 Togo ranks 100th of 179 countries.

Across the 24 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 23 and Togo in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Japan Togo Difference Ahead
1780s 1.39 million 903,344 484,216 Japan
1790s 1.39 million 901,983 489,247 Japan
1800s 1.39 million 900,534 493,086 Japan
1810s 1.44 million 899,602 544,548 Japan
1820s 1.49 million 903,962 590,388 Japan
1830s 1.54 million 908,716 635,584 Japan
1840s 1.59 million 913,744 679,726 Japan
1850s 1.64 million 918,893 722,747 Japan
1860s 1.71 million 924,440 784,070 Japan
1870s 1.77 million 942,132 826,978 Japan
1880s 1.89 million 960,254 932,496 Japan
1890s 2.05 million 978,918 1.07 million Japan
1900s 2.28 million 997,982 1.28 million Japan
1910s 2.52 million 1.02 million 1.50 million Japan
1920s 2.79 million 1.22 million 1.57 million Japan
1930s 3.12 million 1.46 million 1.66 million Japan
1940s 3.48 million 1.74 million 1.74 million Japan
1950s 3.74 million 1.90 million 1.84 million Japan
1960s 4.02 million 2.30 million 1.73 million Japan
1970s 3.67 million 2.33 million 1.34 million Japan
1980s 3.26 million 2.33 million 930,820 Japan
1990s 3.08 million 2.47 million 605,890 Japan
2000s 2.91 million 2.55 million 364,800 Japan
2010s 2.48 million 2.71 million 225,130 Togo

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, Japan or Togo?
Togo, at 2.71 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 Togo?
225,130, with Togo ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Togo?
24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
How do Japan and Togo rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
Japan ranks 103rd and Togo ranks 100th 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.