Brazil vs India: Castor oil seeds — Area harvested
Castor oil seeds — Area harvested over time
- Brazil
- India
How they compare
India currently reports 827,889 ha against 46,440 ha in Brazil, a difference of 781,449 ha.
That makes India's figure about 17.8 times Brazil's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was India ahead.
Brazil ranks 3rd and India ranks 1st of 44 countries.
India has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brazil | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 342,106 ha | 435,667 ha | 93,560 ha | India |
| 1970s | 390,047 ha | 459,300 ha | 69,253 ha | India |
| 1980s | 379,051 ha | 595,640 ha | 216,589 ha | India |
| 1990s | 145,940 ha | 726,980 ha | 581,040 ha | India |
| 2000s | 167,059 ha | 773,029 ha | 605,969 ha | India |
| 2010s | 82,243 ha | 1.02 million ha | 940,528 ha | India |
| 2020s | 46,824 ha | 921,342 ha | 874,519 ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher castor oil seeds — area harvested, Brazil or India?
- India, at 827,889 ha against 46,440 ha in Brazil as of 2024.
- What is the difference in castor oil seeds — area harvested between Brazil and India?
- 781,449 ha, with India ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and India?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Brazil and India rank globally for castor oil seeds — area harvested?
- Brazil ranks 3rd and India ranks 1st of 44 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Castor oil seeds — 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.