New Caledonia vs Puerto Rico: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?

New Caledonia
21,320
in 2010
Puerto Rico
12,366
in 2010
New Caledonia rank
160th
Puerto Rico rank
162nd

Has the world passed peak agricultural land? over time

  • New Caledonia
  • Puerto Rico
20.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k178018952010

How they compare

New Caledonia currently reports 21,320 against 12,366 in Puerto Rico, a difference of 8,954.

That makes New Caledonia's figure about 1.7 times Puerto Rico's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, New Caledonia has been ahead every year.

New Caledonia ranks 160th and Puerto Rico ranks 162nd of 179 countries.

New Caledonia has averaged higher in every one of the 24 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade New Caledonia Puerto Rico Difference Ahead
1780s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1790s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1800s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1810s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1820s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1830s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1840s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1850s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1860s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1870s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1880s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1890s 83,311 12,472 70,839 New Caledonia
1900s 83,311 12,402 70,909 New Caledonia
1910s 83,311 12,396 70,915 New Caledonia
1920s 83,311 12,396 70,915 New Caledonia
1930s 83,311 12,396 70,915 New Caledonia
1940s 83,311 12,396 70,915 New Caledonia
1950s 82,536 12,396 70,140 New Caledonia
1960s 82,191 12,396 69,794 New Caledonia
1970s 81,631 12,393 69,238 New Caledonia
1980s 81,044 12,383 68,661 New Caledonia
1990s 81,040 12,377 68,663 New Caledonia
2000s 72,018 12,366 59,652 New Caledonia
2010s 21,320 12,366 8,954 New Caledonia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher has the world passed peak agricultural land?, New Caledonia or Puerto Rico?
New Caledonia, at 21,320 against 12,366 in Puerto Rico as of 2010.
What is the difference in has the world passed peak agricultural land? between New Caledonia and Puerto Rico?
8,954, with New Caledonia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for New Caledonia and Puerto Rico?
24 years are reported by both, from 1780 to 2010.
How do New Caledonia and Puerto Rico rank globally for has the world passed peak agricultural land??
New Caledonia ranks 160th and Puerto Rico ranks 162nd 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

New Caledonia vs Puerto Rico: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?. Statizoid, drawing on Taylor and Rising, and United Nations (2021) – processed by Our World in Data. Retrieved 09 September 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/global-peak-agricultural-land/new-caledonia/puerto-rico-us/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/global-peak-agricultural-land/new-caledonia/puerto-rico-us/">New Caledonia vs Puerto Rico: Has the world passed peak agricultural land?</a> — Statizoid

About this data

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
Last refreshed

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.