Benin vs Senegal: Cereals, primary — Area harvested
Cereals, primary — Area harvested over time
- Benin
- Senegal
How they compare
Benin currently reports 2.14 million ha against 1.95 million ha in Senegal, a difference of 189,000 ha.
That makes Benin's figure about 1.1 times Senegal's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Senegal ahead.
Benin ranks 56th and Senegal ranks 58th of 178 countries.
Senegal has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Benin | Senegal | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 531,665 ha | 1.14 million ha | 608,701 ha | Senegal |
| 1970s | 472,767 ha | 1.13 million ha | 654,739 ha | Senegal |
| 1980s | 586,839 ha | 1.22 million ha | 633,334 ha | Senegal |
| 1990s | 715,924 ha | 1.28 million ha | 565,590 ha | Senegal |
| 2000s | 960,725 ha | 1.24 million ha | 281,191 ha | Senegal |
| 2010s | 1.29 million ha | 1.45 million ha | 164,778 ha | Senegal |
| 2020s | 1.89 million ha | 1.94 million ha | 57,028 ha | Senegal |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher cereals, primary — area harvested, Benin or Senegal?
- Benin, at 2.14 million ha against 1.95 million ha in Senegal as of 2024.
- What is the difference in cereals, primary — area harvested between Benin and Senegal?
- 189,000 ha, with Benin ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Senegal?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Benin and Senegal rank globally for cereals, primary — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 56th and Senegal ranks 58th of 178 countries.
- 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
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.