Americas vs India: Lentils, dry — Area harvested
Lentils, dry — Area harvested over time
- Americas
- India
How they compare
Americas currently reports 2.09 million ha against 1.74 million ha in India, a difference of 351,190 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 1.2 times India's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was India ahead.
Americas ranks 3rd and India ranks 1st of 24 groups.
Across the 7 decades both report, Americas averaged higher in 2 and India in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | India | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 94,553 ha | 795,082 ha | 700,529 ha | India |
| 1970s | 124,712 ha | 870,700 ha | 745,988 ha | India |
| 1980s | 237,846 ha | 995,000 ha | 757,154 ha | India |
| 1990s | 432,505 ha | 1.23 million ha | 800,845 ha | India |
| 2000s | 795,560 ha | 1.43 million ha | 636,970 ha | India |
| 2010s | 1.69 million ha | 1.45 million ha | 242,431 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 1.95 million ha | 1.51 million ha | 437,644 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher lentils, dry — area harvested, Americas or India?
- Americas, at 2.09 million ha against 1.74 million ha in India as of 2024.
- What is the difference in lentils, dry — area harvested between Americas and India?
- 351,190 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and India?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and India rank globally for lentils, dry — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 3rd and India ranks 1st of 24 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Lentils, dry — 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.