Cameroon vs Madagascar: Cereals, primary — Area harvested

Cameroon
2.17 million ha
in 2024
Madagascar
2.19 million ha
in 2024
Cameroon rank
60th
Madagascar rank
59th

Cereals, primary — Area harvested over time

  • Cameroon
  • Madagascar
500.0k1.0M1.5M2.0M2.5M196119922024

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 2.19 million ha against 2.17 million ha in Cameroon, a difference of 15,880 ha.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Madagascar ahead.

Cameroon ranks 60th and Madagascar ranks 59th of 193 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Cameroon averaged higher in 2 and Madagascar in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Cameroon Madagascar Difference Ahead
1960s 876,001 ha 1.03 million ha 151,613 ha Madagascar
1970s 995,446 ha 1.19 million ha 194,398 ha Madagascar
1980s 829,868 ha 1.30 million ha 475,092 ha Madagascar
1990s 896,420 ha 1.35 million ha 456,624 ha Madagascar
2000s 1.13 million ha 1.48 million ha 343,196 ha Madagascar
2010s 2.07 million ha 1.48 million ha 587,990 ha Cameroon
2020s 2.18 million ha 1.93 million ha 247,800 ha Cameroon

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — area harvested, Cameroon or Madagascar?
Madagascar, at 2.19 million ha against 2.17 million ha in Cameroon as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — area harvested between Cameroon and Madagascar?
15,880 ha, with Madagascar ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Madagascar?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Cameroon and Madagascar rank globally for cereals, primary — area harvested?
Cameroon ranks 60th and Madagascar ranks 59th of 193 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

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
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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.