Malawi vs Uganda: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested over time
- Malawi
- Uganda
How they compare
Malawi currently reports 400,000 ha against 330,000 ha in Uganda, a difference of 70,000 ha.
That makes Malawi's figure about 1.2 times Uganda's.
The two have swapped places 13 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Uganda ahead.
Malawi ranks 19th and Uganda ranks 22nd of 124 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Malawi averaged higher in 3 and Uganda in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Malawi | Uganda | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 197,222 ha | 254,778 ha | 57,556 ha | Uganda |
| 1970s | 242,300 ha | 236,824 ha | 5,476 ha | Malawi |
| 1980s | 187,896 ha | 142,738 ha | 45,158 ha | Malawi |
| 1990s | 91,126 ha | 190,600 ha | 99,474 ha | Uganda |
| 2000s | 228,818 ha | 239,400 ha | 10,582 ha | Uganda |
| 2010s | 375,494 ha | 394,930 ha | 19,436 ha | Uganda |
| 2020s | 407,915 ha | 361,200 ha | 46,715 ha | Malawi |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested, Malawi or Uganda?
- Malawi, at 400,000 ha against 330,000 ha in Uganda as of 2024.
- What is the difference in groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested between Malawi and Uganda?
- 70,000 ha, with Malawi ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Malawi and Uganda?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Malawi and Uganda rank globally for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested?
- Malawi ranks 19th and Uganda ranks 22nd of 124 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.