What is the difference in agricultural land use per person between Burundi and Papua New Guinea?

0.0128 hectares per person, with Burundi ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Burundi and Papua New Guinea?

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.

Burundi vs Papua New Guinea: Agricultural land use per person

Burundi

0.1708 hectares per person

in 2025

Papua New Guinea

0.158 hectares per person

in 2025

Burundi rank

140th

Papua New Guinea rank

143rd

Agricultural land use per person over time

Burundi
Papua New Guinea

How they compare

Burundi currently reports 0.1708 hectares per person against 0.158 hectares per person in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 0.0128 hectares per person.

That makes Burundi's figure about 1.1 times Papua New Guinea's.

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

Burundi ranks 140th and Papua New Guinea ranks 143rd of 202 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Burundi averaged higher in 34 and Papua New Guinea in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Burundi	Papua New Guinea	Difference	Ahead
1000s	1.21 hectares per person	0.8669 hectares per person	0.3479 hectares per person	Burundi
1100s	1.18 hectares per person	0.8362 hectares per person	0.3459 hectares per person	Burundi
1200s	1.15 hectares per person	0.803 hectares per person	0.3439 hectares per person	Burundi
1300s	1.11 hectares per person	0.7669 hectares per person	0.342 hectares per person	Burundi
1400s	1.07 hectares per person	0.727 hectares per person	0.34 hectares per person	Burundi
1500s	1.02 hectares per person	0.6822 hectares per person	0.3381 hectares per person	Burundi
1600s	0.9668 hectares per person	0.6306 hectares per person	0.3362 hectares per person	Burundi
1700s	0.9033 hectares per person	0.5687 hectares per person	0.3346 hectares per person	Burundi
1710s	0.8962 hectares per person	0.5618 hectares per person	0.3345 hectares per person	Burundi
1720s	0.8889 hectares per person	0.5546 hectares per person	0.3343 hectares per person	Burundi
1730s	0.8815 hectares per person	0.5473 hectares per person	0.3342 hectares per person	Burundi
1740s	0.8738 hectares per person	0.5397 hectares per person	0.3341 hectares per person	Burundi
1750s	0.8659 hectares per person	0.532 hectares per person	0.334 hectares per person	Burundi
1760s	0.8579 hectares per person	0.524 hectares per person	0.3339 hectares per person	Burundi
1770s	0.8495 hectares per person	0.5158 hectares per person	0.3338 hectares per person	Burundi
1780s	0.8409 hectares per person	0.5072 hectares per person	0.3337 hectares per person	Burundi
1790s	0.8321 hectares per person	0.4984 hectares per person	0.3336 hectares per person	Burundi
1800s	0.8229 hectares per person	0.4893 hectares per person	0.3336 hectares per person	Burundi
1810s	0.8134 hectares per person	0.4798 hectares per person	0.3335 hectares per person	Burundi
1820s	0.8035 hectares per person	0.47 hectares per person	0.3335 hectares per person	Burundi
1830s	0.7932 hectares per person	0.4596 hectares per person	0.3335 hectares per person	Burundi
1840s	0.7824 hectares per person	0.4489 hectares per person	0.3336 hectares per person	Burundi
1850s	0.7712 hectares per person	0.4375 hectares per person	0.3336 hectares per person	Burundi
1860s	0.7593 hectares per person	0.4256 hectares per person	0.3337 hectares per person	Burundi
1870s	0.7468 hectares per person	0.4129 hectares per person	0.3339 hectares per person	Burundi
1880s	0.7335 hectares per person	0.3994 hectares per person	0.3341 hectares per person	Burundi
1890s	0.7194 hectares per person	0.3849 hectares per person	0.3345 hectares per person	Burundi
1900s	0.7042 hectares per person	2.08 hectares per person	1.38 hectares per person	Papua New Guinea
1910s	0.6877 hectares per person	1.96 hectares per person	1.28 hectares per person	Papua New Guinea
1920s	0.6695 hectares per person	1.83 hectares per person	1.16 hectares per person	Papua New Guinea
1930s	0.6493 hectares per person	1.67 hectares per person	1.02 hectares per person	Papua New Guinea
1940s	0.6263 hectares per person	1.47 hectares per person	0.8476 hectares per person	Papua New Guinea
1950s	0.5846 hectares per person	0.982 hectares per person	0.3974 hectares per person	Papua New Guinea
1960s	0.5368 hectares per person	0.2459 hectares per person	0.2909 hectares per person	Burundi
1970s	0.5491 hectares per person	0.2534 hectares per person	0.2956 hectares per person	Burundi
1980s	0.4477 hectares per person	0.2298 hectares per person	0.2179 hectares per person	Burundi
1990s	0.3441 hectares per person	0.2125 hectares per person	0.1315 hectares per person	Burundi
2000s	0.2518 hectares per person	0.1913 hectares per person	0.0605 hectares per person	Burundi
2010s	0.1912 hectares per person	0.1779 hectares per person	0.0133 hectares per person	Burundi
2020s	0.1731 hectares per person	0.1641 hectares per person	0.0089 hectares per person	Burundi

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher agricultural land use per person, Burundi or Papua New Guinea?: Burundi, at 0.1708 hectares per person against 0.158 hectares per person in Papua New Guinea as of 2025.
What is the difference in agricultural land use per person between Burundi and Papua New Guinea?: 0.0128 hectares per person, with Burundi ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Burundi and Papua New Guinea?: 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
How do Burundi and Papua New Guinea rank globally for agricultural land use per person?: Burundi ranks 140th and Papua New Guinea ranks 143rd 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.