Australia vs Japan: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested over time
- Australia
- Japan
How they compare
Japan currently reports 5,560 ha against 4,826 ha in Australia, a difference of 734 ha.
That makes Japan's figure about 1.2 times Australia's.
The two have swapped places 12 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.
Australia ranks 62nd and Japan ranks 60th of 112 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 3 and Japan in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21,203 ha | 62,833 ha | 41,630 ha | Japan |
| 1970s | 31,062 ha | 44,510 ha | 13,448 ha | Japan |
| 1980s | 30,818 ha | 26,700 ha | 4,118 ha | Australia |
| 1990s | 20,080 ha | 14,390 ha | 5,690 ha | Australia |
| 2000s | 13,260 ha | 9,153 ha | 4,107 ha | Australia |
| 2010s | 6,436 ha | 6,852 ha | 415.5 ha | Japan |
| 2020s | 5,533 ha | 5,876 ha | 342.8 ha | Japan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested, Australia or Japan?
- Japan, at 5,560 ha against 4,826 ha in Australia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested between Australia and Japan?
- 734 ha, with Japan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Japan?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Australia and Japan rank globally for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested?
- Australia ranks 62nd and Japan ranks 60th of 112 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Groundnuts, excluding shelled — 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.