Melanesia vs Northern Africa: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested over time
- Melanesia
- Northern Africa
How they compare
Northern Africa currently reports 2.55 million ha against 3,550 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 2.54 million ha.
That makes Northern Africa's figure about 717.1 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Northern Africa has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 13th and Northern Africa ranks 10th of 16 countries.
Northern Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Northern Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,280 ha | 370,945 ha | 367,665 ha | Northern Africa |
| 1970s | 3,411 ha | 843,643 ha | 840,233 ha | Northern Africa |
| 1980s | 3,003 ha | 736,698 ha | 733,695 ha | Northern Africa |
| 1990s | 2,993 ha | 982,625 ha | 979,631 ha | Northern Africa |
| 2000s | 3,575 ha | 1.15 million ha | 1.14 million ha | Northern Africa |
| 2010s | 4,041 ha | 2.19 million ha | 2.19 million ha | Northern Africa |
| 2020s | 3,219 ha | 3.23 million ha | 3.23 million ha | Northern Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested, Melanesia or Northern Africa?
- Northern Africa, at 2.55 million ha against 3,550 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested between Melanesia and Northern Africa?
- 2.54 million ha, with Northern Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Northern Africa?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Northern Africa rank globally for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 13th and Northern Africa ranks 10th of 16 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.