Afghanistan vs Cuba: Maize (corn) — Area harvested

Afghanistan
135,000 ha
in 2024
Cuba
115,000 ha
in 2024
Afghanistan rank
79th
Cuba rank
82nd

Maize (corn) — Area harvested over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Cuba
100.0k200.0k300.0k400.0k500.0k196119922024

How they compare

Afghanistan currently reports 135,000 ha against 115,000 ha in Cuba, a difference of 20,000 ha.

That makes Afghanistan's figure about 1.2 times Cuba's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Afghanistan ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 79th and Cuba ranks 82nd of 182 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Afghanistan averaged higher in 6 and Cuba in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Afghanistan Cuba Difference Ahead
1960s 495,333 ha 97,444 ha 397,889 ha Afghanistan
1970s 475,820 ha 91,626 ha 384,194 ha Afghanistan
1980s 356,250 ha 77,000 ha 279,250 ha Afghanistan
1990s 240,300 ha 105,500 ha 134,800 ha Afghanistan
2000s 158,800 ha 140,651 ha 18,149 ha Afghanistan
2010s 137,674 ha 163,728 ha 26,054 ha Cuba
2020s 136,116 ha 116,063 ha 20,052 ha Afghanistan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher maize (corn) — area harvested, Afghanistan or Cuba?
Afghanistan, at 135,000 ha against 115,000 ha in Cuba as of 2024.
What is the difference in maize (corn) — area harvested between Afghanistan and Cuba?
20,000 ha, with Afghanistan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Afghanistan and Cuba?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Afghanistan and Cuba rank globally for maize (corn) — area harvested?
Afghanistan ranks 79th and Cuba ranks 82nd of 182 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Maize (corn) — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Afghanistan vs Cuba: Maize (corn) — Area harvested. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 17 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/maize-corn-area-harvested/afghanistan/cuba/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/maize-corn-area-harvested/afghanistan/cuba/">Afghanistan vs Cuba: Maize (corn) — Area harvested</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Maize (corn) — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
215 places, 11,827 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.