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

0.0087 hectares per person, with Puerto Rico ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt 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.

Egypt vs Puerto Rico: Agricultural land use per person

Egypt

0.0388 hectares per person

in 2025

Puerto Rico

0.0475 hectares per person

in 2025

Egypt rank

180th

Puerto Rico rank

177th

Agricultural land use per person over time

Egypt
Puerto Rico

How they compare

Puerto Rico currently reports 0.0475 hectares per person against 0.0388 hectares per person in Egypt, a difference of 0.0087 hectares per person.

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

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Egypt ahead.

Egypt ranks 180th and Puerto Rico ranks 177th of 202 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Egypt averaged higher in 5 and Puerto Rico in 35.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Egypt	Puerto Rico	Difference	Ahead
1000s	0.0953 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.0953 hectares per person	Egypt
1100s	0.0953 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.0953 hectares per person	Egypt
1200s	0.0953 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.0953 hectares per person	Egypt
1300s	0.0953 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.0953 hectares per person	Egypt
1400s	0.0953 hectares per person	0 hectares per person	0.0953 hectares per person	Egypt
1500s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.1901 hectares per person	0.0948 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1600s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.4025 hectares per person	0.3071 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1700s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3869 hectares per person	0.2915 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1710s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3814 hectares per person	0.2861 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1720s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.376 hectares per person	0.2806 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1730s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3706 hectares per person	0.2753 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1740s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3653 hectares per person	0.27 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1750s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3601 hectares per person	0.2648 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1760s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3549 hectares per person	0.2596 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1770s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3498 hectares per person	0.2545 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1780s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3447 hectares per person	0.2494 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1790s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3397 hectares per person	0.2444 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1800s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3347 hectares per person	0.2394 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1810s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3298 hectares per person	0.2345 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1820s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3249 hectares per person	0.2296 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1830s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3201 hectares per person	0.2248 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1840s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3153 hectares per person	0.22 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1850s	0.0953 hectares per person	0.3105 hectares per person	0.2152 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1860s	0.0892 hectares per person	0.3058 hectares per person	0.2166 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1870s	0.0892 hectares per person	0.301 hectares per person	0.2119 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1880s	0.0892 hectares per person	0.2964 hectares per person	0.2072 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1890s	0.0884 hectares per person	0.2917 hectares per person	0.2032 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1900s	0.0884 hectares per person	0.287 hectares per person	0.1987 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1910s	0.089 hectares per person	0.2824 hectares per person	0.1934 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1920s	0.0965 hectares per person	0.2778 hectares per person	0.1813 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1930s	0.0975 hectares per person	0.2732 hectares per person	0.1756 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1940s	0.094 hectares per person	0.2685 hectares per person	0.1745 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1950s	0.0938 hectares per person	0.2559 hectares per person	0.1621 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1960s	0.0868 hectares per person	0.2335 hectares per person	0.1467 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1970s	0.0711 hectares per person	0.1737 hectares per person	0.1026 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1980s	0.0505 hectares per person	0.1387 hectares per person	0.0882 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
1990s	0.0487 hectares per person	0.0912 hectares per person	0.0425 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
2000s	0.0457 hectares per person	0.0557 hectares per person	0.0099 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
2010s	0.0408 hectares per person	0.0499 hectares per person	0.0092 hectares per person	Puerto Rico
2020s	0.0388 hectares per person	0.0469 hectares per person	0.0081 hectares per person	Puerto Rico

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher agricultural land use per person, Egypt or Puerto Rico?: Puerto Rico, at 0.0475 hectares per person against 0.0388 hectares per person in Egypt as of 2025.
What is the difference in agricultural land use per person between Egypt and Puerto Rico?: 0.0087 hectares per person, with Puerto Rico ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and Puerto Rico?: 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
How do Egypt and Puerto Rico rank globally for agricultural land use per person?: Egypt ranks 180th 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.