Morocco vs Yemen: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
Morocco
18.21 million
in 2010
Yemen
19.37 million
in 2010
Morocco rank
47th
Yemen rank
44th
Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time
- Morocco
- Yemen
How they compare
Yemen currently reports 19.37 million against 18.21 million in Morocco, a difference of 1.16 million.
That makes Yemen's figure about 1.1 times Morocco's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1780 it was Yemen ahead.
Morocco ranks 47th and Yemen ranks 44th of 179 countries.
Across the 24 decades both report, Morocco averaged higher in 15 and Yemen in 9.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Morocco | Yemen | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1780s | 4.09 million | 5.96 million | 1.87 million | Yemen |
| 1790s | 4.24 million | 6.14 million | 1.90 million | Yemen |
| 1800s | 4.40 million | 6.33 million | 1.94 million | Yemen |
| 1810s | 4.56 million | 6.53 million | 1.98 million | Yemen |
| 1820s | 4.72 million | 6.74 million | 2.02 million | Yemen |
| 1830s | 5.58 million | 6.94 million | 1.36 million | Yemen |
| 1840s | 6.46 million | 7.22 million | 758,260 | Yemen |
| 1850s | 7.36 million | 7.52 million | 160,650 | Yemen |
| 1860s | 8.26 million | 7.82 million | 440,530 | Morocco |
| 1870s | 9.19 million | 8.15 million | 1.04 million | Morocco |
| 1880s | 10.12 million | 8.63 million | 1.49 million | Morocco |
| 1890s | 11.07 million | 9.14 million | 1.93 million | Morocco |
| 1900s | 12.03 million | 9.67 million | 2.35 million | Morocco |
| 1910s | 13.00 million | 10.23 million | 2.77 million | Morocco |
| 1920s | 14.09 million | 11.25 million | 2.84 million | Morocco |
| 1930s | 15.31 million | 12.33 million | 2.98 million | Morocco |
| 1940s | 16.79 million | 13.48 million | 3.31 million | Morocco |
| 1950s | 18.49 million | 14.71 million | 3.78 million | Morocco |
| 1960s | 25.47 million | 18.34 million | 7.13 million | Morocco |
| 1970s | 27.62 million | 18.42 million | 9.19 million | Morocco |
| 1980s | 30.67 million | 18.47 million | 12.20 million | Morocco |
| 1990s | 29.82 million | 19.26 million | 10.56 million | Morocco |
| 2000s | 22.54 million | 19.30 million | 3.24 million | Morocco |
| 2010s | 18.21 million | 19.37 million | 1.16 million | Yemen |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, Morocco or Yemen?
- Yemen, at 19.37 million against 18.21 million in Morocco as of 2010.
- What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between Morocco and Yemen?
- 1.16 million, with Yemen ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Morocco and Yemen?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
- How do Morocco and Yemen rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
- Morocco ranks 47th and Yemen ranks 44th 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.