What is the difference in agricultural land use per person between Burundi and Switzerland?

0.0081 hectares per person, with Switzerland ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Burundi and Switzerland?

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 Switzerland: Agricultural land use per person

Burundi

0.1708 hectares per person

in 2025

Switzerland

0.1789 hectares per person

in 2025

Burundi rank

140th

Switzerland rank

137th

Agricultural land use per person over time

Burundi
Switzerland

How they compare

Switzerland currently reports 0.1789 hectares per person against 0.1708 hectares per person in Burundi, a difference of 0.0081 hectares per person.

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

Burundi ranks 140th and Switzerland ranks 137th of 202 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Burundi averaged higher in 25 and Switzerland in 15.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Burundi	Switzerland	Difference	Ahead
1000s	1.21 hectares per person	2.68 hectares per person	1.47 hectares per person	Switzerland
1100s	1.18 hectares per person	3.37 hectares per person	2.19 hectares per person	Switzerland
1200s	1.15 hectares per person	2.7 hectares per person	1.55 hectares per person	Switzerland
1300s	1.11 hectares per person	2.02 hectares per person	0.9114 hectares per person	Switzerland
1400s	1.07 hectares per person	2.31 hectares per person	1.24 hectares per person	Switzerland
1500s	1.02 hectares per person	1.7 hectares per person	0.6774 hectares per person	Switzerland
1600s	0.9668 hectares per person	1.4 hectares per person	0.4341 hectares per person	Switzerland
1700s	0.9033 hectares per person	1.36 hectares per person	0.4547 hectares per person	Switzerland
1710s	0.8962 hectares per person	1.26 hectares per person	0.3661 hectares per person	Switzerland
1720s	0.8889 hectares per person	1.17 hectares per person	0.2776 hectares per person	Switzerland
1730s	0.8815 hectares per person	1.07 hectares per person	0.1893 hectares per person	Switzerland
1740s	0.8738 hectares per person	0.975 hectares per person	0.1012 hectares per person	Switzerland
1750s	0.8659 hectares per person	0.8792 hectares per person	0.0133 hectares per person	Switzerland
1760s	0.8579 hectares per person	0.845 hectares per person	0.0129 hectares per person	Burundi
1770s	0.8495 hectares per person	0.8108 hectares per person	0.0388 hectares per person	Burundi
1780s	0.8409 hectares per person	0.7765 hectares per person	0.0644 hectares per person	Burundi
1790s	0.8321 hectares per person	0.7422 hectares per person	0.0899 hectares per person	Burundi
1800s	0.8229 hectares per person	0.7078 hectares per person	0.115 hectares per person	Burundi
1810s	0.8134 hectares per person	0.6847 hectares per person	0.1286 hectares per person	Burundi
1820s	0.8035 hectares per person	0.6615 hectares per person	0.1419 hectares per person	Burundi
1830s	0.7932 hectares per person	0.6389 hectares per person	0.1542 hectares per person	Burundi
1840s	0.7824 hectares per person	0.6161 hectares per person	0.1664 hectares per person	Burundi
1850s	0.7712 hectares per person	0.5927 hectares per person	0.1785 hectares per person	Burundi
1860s	0.7593 hectares per person	0.5689 hectares per person	0.1904 hectares per person	Burundi
1870s	0.7468 hectares per person	0.5453 hectares per person	0.2015 hectares per person	Burundi
1880s	0.7335 hectares per person	0.5207 hectares per person	0.2129 hectares per person	Burundi
1890s	0.7194 hectares per person	0.4969 hectares per person	0.2225 hectares per person	Burundi
1900s	0.7042 hectares per person	0.4716 hectares per person	0.2326 hectares per person	Burundi
1910s	0.6877 hectares per person	0.447 hectares per person	0.2406 hectares per person	Burundi
1920s	0.6695 hectares per person	0.4223 hectares per person	0.2472 hectares per person	Burundi
1930s	0.6493 hectares per person	0.3972 hectares per person	0.2522 hectares per person	Burundi
1940s	0.6263 hectares per person	0.3725 hectares per person	0.2538 hectares per person	Burundi
1950s	0.5846 hectares per person	0.3351 hectares per person	0.2495 hectares per person	Burundi
1960s	0.5368 hectares per person	0.2981 hectares per person	0.2387 hectares per person	Burundi
1970s	0.5491 hectares per person	0.2629 hectares per person	0.2861 hectares per person	Burundi
1980s	0.4477 hectares per person	0.253 hectares per person	0.1947 hectares per person	Burundi
1990s	0.3441 hectares per person	0.2285 hectares per person	0.1156 hectares per person	Burundi
2000s	0.2518 hectares per person	0.2101 hectares per person	0.0417 hectares per person	Burundi
2010s	0.1912 hectares per person	0.1934 hectares per person	0.0022 hectares per person	Switzerland
2020s	0.1731 hectares per person	0.1822 hectares per person	0.0091 hectares per person	Switzerland

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher agricultural land use per person, Burundi or Switzerland?: Switzerland, at 0.1789 hectares per person against 0.1708 hectares per person in Burundi as of 2025.
What is the difference in agricultural land use per person between Burundi and Switzerland?: 0.0081 hectares per person, with Switzerland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Burundi and Switzerland?: 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
How do Burundi and Switzerland rank globally for agricultural land use per person?: Burundi ranks 140th and Switzerland ranks 137th 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.