What is the difference in agricultural land use per person between Bangladesh and Puerto Rico?

0.0078 hectares per person, with Bangladesh ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Puerto Rico?

108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.

Where does this data come from?

HYDE (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Agricultural land use per person. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Bangladesh vs Puerto Rico: Agricultural land use per person

Bangladesh

0.0553 hectares per person

in 2025

Puerto Rico

0.0475 hectares per person

in 2025

Bangladesh rank

175th

Puerto Rico rank

177th

Agricultural land use per person over time

Bangladesh
Puerto Rico

How they compare

Bangladesh currently reports 0.0553 hectares per person against 0.0475 hectares per person in Puerto Rico, a difference of 0.0078 hectares per person.

That makes Bangladesh's figure about 1.2 times Puerto Rico's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Bangladesh ahead.

Bangladesh ranks 175th and Puerto Rico ranks 177th of 202 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Bangladesh averaged higher in 9 and Puerto Rico in 31.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Bangladesh	Puerto Rico	Difference	Ahead
1000s	0.3395 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.3395 hectares per person	Bangladesh
1100s	0.3328 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.3328 hectares per person	Bangladesh
1200s	0.3254 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.3254 hectares per person	Bangladesh
1300s	0.3172 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.3172 hectares per person	Bangladesh
1400s	0.3081 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.3081 hectares per person	Bangladesh
1500s	0.2977 hectares per person	0.1901 hectares per person	0.1076 hectares per person	Bangladesh
1600s	0.2855 hectares per person	0.4025 hectares per person	0.1169 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1700s	0.2707 hectares per person	0.3869 hectares per person	0.1162 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1710s	0.269 hectares per person	0.3814 hectares per person	0.1124 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1720s	0.2673 hectares per person	0.376 hectares per person	0.1087 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1730s	0.2655 hectares per person	0.3706 hectares per person	0.1051 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1740s	0.2636 hectares per person	0.3653 hectares per person	0.1017 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1750s	0.2618 hectares per person	0.3601 hectares per person	0.0983 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1760s	0.2598 hectares per person	0.3549 hectares per person	0.0951 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1770s	0.2578 hectares per person	0.3498 hectares per person	0.092 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1780s	0.2557 hectares per person	0.3447 hectares per person	0.089 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1790s	0.2536 hectares per person	0.3397 hectares per person	0.0861 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1800s	0.2513 hectares per person	0.3347 hectares per person	0.0834 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1810s	0.249 hectares per person	0.3298 hectares per person	0.0808 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1820s	0.2466 hectares per person	0.3249 hectares per person	0.0783 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1830s	0.2441 hectares per person	0.3201 hectares per person	0.076 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1840s	0.2415 hectares per person	0.3153 hectares per person	0.0738 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1850s	0.2392 hectares per person	0.3105 hectares per person	0.0713 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1860s	0.2365 hectares per person	0.3058 hectares per person	0.0693 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1870s	0.2336 hectares per person	0.301 hectares per person	0.0675 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1880s	0.2304 hectares per person	0.2964 hectares per person	0.0659 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1890s	0.2266 hectares per person	0.2917 hectares per person	0.0651 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1900s	0.2226 hectares per person	0.287 hectares per person	0.0644 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1910s	0.2184 hectares per person	0.2824 hectares per person	0.064 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1920s	0.214 hectares per person	0.2778 hectares per person	0.0638 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1930s	0.2094 hectares per person	0.2732 hectares per person	0.0638 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1940s	0.2043 hectares per person	0.2685 hectares per person	0.0642 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1950s	0.1946 hectares per person	0.2559 hectares per person	0.0613 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1960s	0.1738 hectares per person	0.2335 hectares per person	0.0598 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1970s	0.1405 hectares per person	0.1737 hectares per person	0.0332 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1980s	0.1111 hectares per person	0.1387 hectares per person	0.0276 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1990s	0.0831 hectares per person	0.0912 hectares per person	0.0081 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
2000s	0.0672 hectares per person	0.0557 hectares per person	0.0115 hectares per person	Bangladesh
2010s	0.0587 hectares per person	0.0499 hectares per person	0.0088 hectares per person	Bangladesh
2020s	0.0558 hectares per person	0.0469 hectares per person	0.0089 hectares per person	Bangladesh

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher agricultural land use per person, Bangladesh or Puerto Rico?: Bangladesh, at 0.0553 hectares per person against 0.0475 hectares per person in Puerto Rico as of 2025.
What is the difference in agricultural land use per person between Bangladesh and Puerto Rico?: 0.0078 hectares per person, with Bangladesh ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Puerto Rico?: 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
How do Bangladesh and Puerto Rico rank globally for agricultural land use per person?: Bangladesh ranks 175th and Puerto Rico ranks 177th of 202 countries.
Where does this data come from?: HYDE (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Agricultural land use per person. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Agricultural land use per person
Unit: hectares per person
Source: HYDE (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 202 places, 21,784 data points, 1000–2025
Last refreshed: 09 October 2026

Total agricultural land per person for each separate country over time.