Costa Rica vs Cyprus: Cereals, primary — Area harvested

Costa Rica
18,980 ha
in 2024
Cyprus
20,070 ha
in 2024
Costa Rica rank
145th
Cyprus rank
144th

Cereals, primary — Area harvested over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Cyprus
050.0k100.0k150.0k196119922024

How they compare

Cyprus currently reports 20,070 ha against 18,980 ha in Costa Rica, a difference of 1,090 ha.

That makes Cyprus's figure about 1.1 times Costa Rica's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Cyprus ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 145th and Cyprus ranks 144th of 178 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Costa Rica averaged higher in 6 and Cyprus in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Costa Rica Cyprus Difference Ahead
1960s 116,792 ha 140,992 ha 24,200 ha Cyprus
1970s 129,404 ha 106,285 ha 23,119 ha Costa Rica
1980s 139,173 ha 53,220 ha 85,953 ha Costa Rica
1990s 72,907 ha 58,489 ha 14,418 ha Costa Rica
2000s 63,825 ha 52,574 ha 11,252 ha Costa Rica
2010s 60,345 ha 28,580 ha 31,765 ha Costa Rica
2020s 29,830 ha 24,450 ha 5,380 ha Costa Rica

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — area harvested, Costa Rica or Cyprus?
Cyprus, at 20,070 ha against 18,980 ha in Costa Rica as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — area harvested between Costa Rica and Cyprus?
1,090 ha, with Cyprus ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Cyprus?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Costa Rica and Cyprus rank globally for cereals, primary — area harvested?
Costa Rica ranks 145th and Cyprus ranks 144th 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

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.