Luxembourg vs Suriname: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time
- Luxembourg
- Suriname
How they compare
Suriname currently reports 83,869 against 63,546 in Luxembourg, a difference of 20,323.
That makes Suriname's figure about 1.3 times Luxembourg's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 1780 it was Luxembourg ahead.
Luxembourg ranks 156th and Suriname ranks 153rd of 179 countries.
Across the 24 decades both report, Luxembourg averaged higher in 22 and Suriname in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Luxembourg | Suriname | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1780s | 80,454 | 14,840 | 65,614 | Luxembourg |
| 1790s | 81,751 | 15,203 | 66,548 | Luxembourg |
| 1800s | 83,088 | 15,445 | 67,643 | Luxembourg |
| 1810s | 83,767 | 15,689 | 68,078 | Luxembourg |
| 1820s | 87,518 | 15,581 | 71,937 | Luxembourg |
| 1830s | 92,107 | 15,567 | 76,541 | Luxembourg |
| 1840s | 97,395 | 15,678 | 81,717 | Luxembourg |
| 1850s | 102,583 | 15,489 | 87,094 | Luxembourg |
| 1860s | 107,831 | 15,423 | 92,408 | Luxembourg |
| 1870s | 105,796 | 15,870 | 89,926 | Luxembourg |
| 1880s | 107,691 | 16,367 | 91,324 | Luxembourg |
| 1890s | 109,228 | 16,765 | 92,463 | Luxembourg |
| 1900s | 111,243 | 17,160 | 94,082 | Luxembourg |
| 1910s | 113,139 | 17,812 | 95,327 | Luxembourg |
| 1920s | 111,982 | 19,916 | 92,066 | Luxembourg |
| 1930s | 112,181 | 22,673 | 89,508 | Luxembourg |
| 1940s | 112,181 | 24,968 | 87,213 | Luxembourg |
| 1950s | 105,799 | 28,088 | 77,711 | Luxembourg |
| 1960s | 100,825 | 35,431 | 65,394 | Luxembourg |
| 1970s | 98,875 | 39,662 | 59,213 | Luxembourg |
| 1980s | 87,958 | 53,518 | 34,441 | Luxembourg |
| 1990s | 75,819 | 66,094 | 9,725 | Luxembourg |
| 2000s | 69,580 | 75,439 | 5,858 | Suriname |
| 2010s | 63,546 | 83,869 | 20,324 | Suriname |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, Luxembourg or Suriname?
- Suriname, at 83,869 against 63,546 in Luxembourg as of 2010.
- What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between Luxembourg and Suriname?
- 20,323, with Suriname ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Luxembourg and Suriname?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
- How do Luxembourg and Suriname rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
- Luxembourg ranks 156th and Suriname ranks 153rd 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.