Japan vs Nigeria: Carrots and turnips — Area harvested

Japan
16,335 ha
in 2024
Nigeria
26,682 ha
in 2024
Japan rank
12th
Nigeria rank
10th

Carrots and turnips — Area harvested over time

  • Japan
  • Nigeria
010.0k20.0k30.0k196119922024

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 26,682 ha against 16,335 ha in Japan, a difference of 10,347 ha.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.6 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 12th and Nigeria ranks 10th of 133 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 4 and Nigeria in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade Japan Nigeria Difference Ahead
1960s 23,422 ha 20,000 ha 3,422 ha Japan
1970s 24,110 ha 20,000 ha 4,110 ha Japan
1980s 24,330 ha 20,100 ha 4,230 ha Japan
1990s 23,460 ha 23,437 ha 23.3 ha Japan
2000s 22,246 ha 27,392 ha 5,146 ha Nigeria
2010s 18,200 ha 26,278 ha 8,078 ha Nigeria
2020s 16,567 ha 26,720 ha 10,153 ha Nigeria

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher carrots and turnips — area harvested, Japan or Nigeria?
Nigeria, at 26,682 ha against 16,335 ha in Japan as of 2024.
What is the difference in carrots and turnips — area harvested between Japan and Nigeria?
10,347 ha, with Nigeria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Nigeria?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Japan and Nigeria rank globally for carrots and turnips — area harvested?
Japan ranks 12th and Nigeria ranks 10th of 133 countries.
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
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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.