Eritrea vs Yemen: Cereals, primary — Area harvested

Eritrea
478,367 ha
in 2024
Yemen
547,681 ha
in 2024
Eritrea rank
95th
Yemen rank
92nd

Cereals, primary — Area harvested over time

  • Eritrea
  • Yemen
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How they compare

Yemen currently reports 547,681 ha against 478,367 ha in Eritrea, a difference of 69,314 ha.

That makes Yemen's figure about 1.1 times Eritrea's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1993 it was Yemen ahead.

Eritrea ranks 95th and Yemen ranks 92nd of 178 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Eritrea Yemen Difference Ahead
1990s 366,833 ha 719,992 ha 353,158 ha Yemen
2000s 410,013 ha 719,368 ha 309,355 ha Yemen
2010s 465,618 ha 681,490 ha 215,873 ha Yemen
2020s 478,315 ha 525,127 ha 46,812 ha Yemen

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — area harvested, Eritrea or Yemen?
Yemen, at 547,681 ha against 478,367 ha in Eritrea as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — area harvested between Eritrea and Yemen?
69,314 ha, with Yemen ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eritrea and Yemen?
32 years are reported by both, from 1993 to 2024.
How do Eritrea and Yemen rank globally for cereals, primary — area harvested?
Eritrea ranks 95th and Yemen ranks 92nd 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.