Americas vs USSR: Cereals, primary — Area harvested

Americas
135.47 million ha
in 2024
USSR
102.82 million ha
in 1991
Americas rank
4th
USSR rank
2nd

Cereals, primary — Area harvested over time

  • Americas
  • USSR
050.0M100.0M150.0M196119922024

How they compare

Americas currently reports 135.47 million ha against 102.82 million ha in USSR, a difference of 32.65 million ha.

That makes Americas's figure about 1.3 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Americas ahead.

Americas ranks 4th and USSR ranks 2nd of 29 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Americas USSR Difference Ahead
1960s 123.01 million ha 118.98 million ha 4.02 million ha Americas
1970s 133.39 million ha 119.72 million ha 13.67 million ha Americas
1980s 140.01 million ha 113.02 million ha 27.00 million ha Americas
1990s 132.10 million ha 103.37 million ha 28.73 million ha Americas

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — area harvested, Americas or USSR?
Americas, at 135.47 million ha against 102.82 million ha in USSR as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — area harvested between Americas and USSR?
32.65 million ha, with Americas ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and USSR?
31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
How do Americas and USSR rank globally for cereals, primary — area harvested?
Americas ranks 4th and USSR ranks 2nd of 29 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cereals, primary — 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
Cereals, primary — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
226 places, 12,898 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.