India vs USSR: Cereals, primary — Area harvested

India
107.67 million ha
in 2024
USSR
102.82 million ha
in 1991
India rank
1st
USSR rank
2nd

Cereals, primary — Area harvested over time

  • India
  • USSR
050.0M100.0M150.0M196119922024

How they compare

India currently reports 107.67 million ha against 102.82 million ha in USSR, a difference of 4.85 million ha.

Across all 31 years both countries report, USSR has been ahead every year.

India ranks 1st and USSR ranks 2nd of 178 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade India USSR Difference Ahead
1960s 95.08 million ha 118.98 million ha 23.90 million ha USSR
1970s 101.56 million ha 119.72 million ha 18.16 million ha USSR
1980s 103.67 million ha 113.02 million ha 9.35 million ha USSR
1990s 101.83 million ha 103.37 million ha 1.54 million ha USSR

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — area harvested, India or USSR?
India, at 107.67 million ha against 102.82 million ha in USSR as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — area harvested between India and USSR?
4.85 million ha, with India ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for India and USSR?
31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
How do India and USSR rank globally for cereals, primary — area harvested?
India ranks 1st and USSR ranks 2nd 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.