Asia vs India: Areca nuts — Area harvested
Areca nuts — Area harvested over time
- Asia
- India
How they compare
Asia currently reports 1.32 million ha against 949,403 ha in India, a difference of 372,037 ha.
That makes Asia's figure about 1.4 times India's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Asia has been ahead every year.
Asia ranks 1st and India ranks 1st of 10 groups.
Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Asia | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 293,429 ha | 139,333 ha | 154,096 ha | Asia |
| 1970s | 323,205 ha | 176,080 ha | 147,125 ha | Asia |
| 1980s | 354,106 ha | 188,880 ha | 165,226 ha | Asia |
| 1990s | 450,082 ha | 241,920 ha | 208,162 ha | Asia |
| 2000s | 638,933 ha | 349,020 ha | 289,913 ha | Asia |
| 2010s | 775,940 ha | 456,020 ha | 319,920 ha | Asia |
| 2020s | 1.22 million ha | 855,481 ha | 369,263 ha | Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher areca nuts — area harvested, Asia or India?
- Asia, at 1.32 million ha against 949,403 ha in India as of 2024.
- What is the difference in areca nuts — area harvested between Asia and India?
- 372,037 ha, with Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and India?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Asia and India rank globally for areca nuts — area harvested?
- Asia ranks 1st and India ranks 1st of 10 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Areca nuts — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.