Greece vs Zambia: Cereals, primary — Area harvested

Greece
709,120 ha
in 2024
Zambia
759,622 ha
in 2024
Greece rank
86th
Zambia rank
84th

Cereals, primary — Area harvested over time

  • Greece
  • Zambia
500.0k1.0M1.5M2.0M196119922024

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 759,622 ha against 709,120 ha in Greece, a difference of 50,502 ha.

That makes Zambia's figure about 1.1 times Greece's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Greece ahead.

Greece ranks 86th and Zambia ranks 84th of 178 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Greece averaged higher in 5 and Zambia in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Greece Zambia Difference Ahead
1960s 1.72 million ha 995,604 ha 723,615 ha Greece
1970s 1.56 million ha 1.14 million ha 417,286 ha Greece
1980s 1.53 million ha 686,786 ha 841,734 ha Greece
1990s 1.36 million ha 773,592 ha 582,090 ha Greece
2000s 1.25 million ha 708,950 ha 537,525 ha Greece
2010s 984,817 ha 1.20 million ha 214,883 ha Zambia
2020s 763,092 ha 1.32 million ha 560,340 ha Zambia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — area harvested, Greece or Zambia?
Zambia, at 759,622 ha against 709,120 ha in Greece as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — area harvested between Greece and Zambia?
50,502 ha, with Zambia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Greece and Zambia?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Greece and Zambia rank globally for cereals, primary — area harvested?
Greece ranks 86th and Zambia ranks 84th 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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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.