Asia vs USSR: Barley — Area harvested

Asia
10.86 million ha
in 2024
USSR
28.59 million ha
in 1991
Asia rank
2nd
USSR rank
1st

Barley — Area harvested over time

  • Asia
  • USSR
10.0M20.0M30.0M40.0M196119922024

How they compare

USSR currently reports 28.59 million ha against 10.86 million ha in Asia, a difference of 17.73 million ha.

That makes USSR's figure about 2.6 times Asia's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Asia ahead.

Asia ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 1st of 27 regions.

USSR has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Asia USSR Difference Ahead
1960s 14.04 million ha 19.09 million ha 5.06 million ha USSR
1970s 11.48 million ha 30.16 million ha 18.68 million ha USSR
1980s 11.74 million ha 30.05 million ha 18.31 million ha USSR
1990s 13.56 million ha 27.38 million ha 13.82 million ha USSR

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher barley — area harvested, Asia or USSR?
USSR, at 28.59 million ha against 10.86 million ha in Asia as of 1991.
What is the difference in barley — area harvested between Asia and USSR?
17.73 million ha, with USSR ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and USSR?
31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
How do Asia and USSR rank globally for barley — area harvested?
Asia ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 1st of 27 regions.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Barley — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Asia vs USSR: Barley — Area harvested. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 20 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/barley-area-harvested/asia/ussr/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/barley-area-harvested/asia/ussr/">Asia vs USSR: Barley — Area harvested</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Barley — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
142 places, 7,699 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.