Americas vs Japan: Buckwheat — Area harvested
Buckwheat — Area harvested over time
- Americas
- Japan
How they compare
Americas currently reports 143,915 ha against 69,000 ha in Japan, a difference of 74,915 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 2.1 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.
Americas ranks 2nd and Japan ranks 9th of 10 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 48,744 ha | 31,556 ha | 17,189 ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 87,131 ha | 20,658 ha | 66,473 ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 153,380 ha | 22,480 ha | 130,900 ha | Americas |
| 1990s | 144,239 ha | 27,110 ha | 117,129 ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 123,458 ha | 43,590 ha | 79,868 ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 129,922 ha | 59,740 ha | 70,182 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 140,227 ha | 66,760 ha | 73,467 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher buckwheat — area harvested, Americas or Japan?
- Americas, at 143,915 ha against 69,000 ha in Japan as of 2024.
- What is the difference in buckwheat — area harvested between Americas and Japan?
- 74,915 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Japan?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Japan rank globally for buckwheat — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 2nd and Japan ranks 9th of 10 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Buckwheat — 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.