Africa vs India: Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested
Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested over time
- Africa
- India
How they compare
Africa currently reports 390,878 ha against 139,486 ha in India, a difference of 251,392 ha.
That makes Africa's figure about 2.8 times India's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Africa has been ahead every year.
Africa ranks 4th and India ranks 5th of 29 groups.
Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Africa | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,433 ha | 7,111 ha | 7,322 ha | Africa |
| 1970s | 16,798 ha | 10,390 ha | 6,408 ha | Africa |
| 1980s | 24,456 ha | 14,160 ha | 10,296 ha | Africa |
| 1990s | 104,054 ha | 19,759 ha | 84,295 ha | Africa |
| 2000s | 167,624 ha | 33,024 ha | 134,600 ha | Africa |
| 2010s | 300,592 ha | 56,959 ha | 243,632 ha | Africa |
| 2020s | 355,187 ha | 122,950 ha | 232,237 ha | Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested, Africa or India?
- Africa, at 390,878 ha against 139,486 ha in India as of 2024.
- What is the difference in cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested between Africa and India?
- 251,392 ha, with Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and India?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Africa and India rank globally for cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested?
- Africa ranks 4th and India ranks 5th of 29 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.