Europe vs USSR: Linseed — Area harvested
Linseed — Area harvested over time
- Europe
- USSR
How they compare
Europe currently reports 1.46 million ha against 680,000 ha in USSR, a difference of 782,370 ha.
That makes Europe's figure about 2.2 times USSR's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Europe has been ahead every year.
Europe ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 3rd of 23 regions.
Europe has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Europe | USSR | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.12 million ha | 1.76 million ha | 359,953 ha | Europe |
| 1970s | 1.69 million ha | 1.40 million ha | 291,667 ha | Europe |
| 1980s | 1.32 million ha | 1.09 million ha | 230,182 ha | Europe |
| 1990s | 983,274 ha | 765,000 ha | 218,274 ha | Europe |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher linseed — area harvested, Europe or USSR?
- Europe, at 1.46 million ha against 680,000 ha in USSR as of 2024.
- What is the difference in linseed — area harvested between Europe and USSR?
- 782,370 ha, with Europe ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Europe and USSR?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
- How do Europe and USSR rank globally for linseed — area harvested?
- Europe ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 3rd of 23 regions.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Linseed — 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.