Eastern Asia vs USSR: Carrots and turnips — Area harvested

Eastern Asia
457,435 ha
in 2024
USSR
160,000 ha
in 1991
Eastern Asia rank
2nd
USSR rank
3rd

Carrots and turnips — Area harvested over time

  • Eastern Asia
  • USSR
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How they compare

Eastern Asia currently reports 457,435 ha against 160,000 ha in USSR, a difference of 297,435 ha.

That makes Eastern Asia's figure about 2.9 times USSR's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, USSR has been ahead every year.

Eastern Asia ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 3rd of 28 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Eastern Asia USSR Difference Ahead
1960s 75,515 ha 93,111 ha 17,597 ha USSR
1970s 86,578 ha 116,090 ha 29,512 ha USSR
1980s 105,547 ha 142,370 ha 36,823 ha USSR
1990s 124,528 ha 149,000 ha 24,472 ha USSR

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher carrots and turnips — area harvested, Eastern Asia or USSR?
Eastern Asia, at 457,435 ha against 160,000 ha in USSR as of 2024.
What is the difference in carrots and turnips — area harvested between Eastern Asia and USSR?
297,435 ha, with Eastern Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Asia and USSR?
31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
How do Eastern Asia and USSR rank globally for carrots and turnips — area harvested?
Eastern Asia ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 3rd of 28 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Carrots and turnips — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Carrots and turnips — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
174 places, 8,626 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.