Iraq vs Peru: Arable land use per person

Iraq
0.1102 hectares per person
in 2023
Peru
0.1158 hectares per person
in 2023
Iraq rank
103rd
Peru rank
100th

Arable land use per person over time

  • Iraq
  • Peru
0.20.40.6196119922023

How they compare

Peru currently reports 0.1158 hectares per person against 0.1102 hectares per person in Iraq, a difference of 0.0055 hectares per person.

That makes Peru's figure about 1.1 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Iraq ahead.

Iraq ranks 103rd and Peru ranks 100th of 206 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Arable land use per person
Unit
hectares per person
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
206 places, 11,842 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

Arable land is defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops, temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. It is measured in hectares per person.