Melanesia vs Polynesia: Beans — Food supply quantity
Beans — Food supply quantity over time
- Melanesia
- Polynesia
How they compare
Polynesia currently reports 0.04 kg/cap against 0.03 kg/cap in Melanesia, a difference of 0.01 kg/cap.
That makes Polynesia's figure about 1.3 times Melanesia's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 14 shared years of data; in 2010 it was Polynesia ahead.
Melanesia ranks 19th and Polynesia ranks 18th of 20 regions.
Polynesia has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Polynesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.037 kg/cap | 0.278 kg/cap | 0.241 kg/cap | Polynesia |
| 2020s | 0.03 kg/cap | 0.2475 kg/cap | 0.2175 kg/cap | Polynesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher beans — food supply quantity, Melanesia or Polynesia?
- Polynesia, at 0.04 kg/cap against 0.03 kg/cap in Melanesia as of 2023.
- What is the difference in beans — food supply quantity between Melanesia and Polynesia?
- 0.01 kg/cap, with Polynesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Polynesia?
- 14 years are reported by both, from 2010 to 2023.
- How do Melanesia and Polynesia rank globally for beans — food supply quantity?
- Melanesia ranks 19th and Polynesia ranks 18th of 20 regions.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Beans — Food supply quantity (kg/capita/yr). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.