France vs Romania: Maize (corn) — Area harvested

France
1.59 million ha
in 2024
Romania
2.11 million ha
in 2024
France rank
24th
Romania rank
21st

Maize (corn) — Area harvested over time

  • France
  • Romania
1.0M2.0M3.0M196119922024

How they compare

Romania currently reports 2.11 million ha against 1.59 million ha in France, a difference of 517,100 ha.

That makes Romania's figure about 1.3 times France's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Romania has been ahead every year.

France ranks 24th and Romania ranks 21st of 182 countries.

Romania has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade France Romania Difference Ahead
1960s 973,289 ha 3.30 million ha 2.33 million ha Romania
1970s 1.76 million ha 3.18 million ha 1.42 million ha Romania
1980s 1.79 million ha 2.92 million ha 1.13 million ha Romania
1990s 1.73 million ha 2.99 million ha 1.26 million ha Romania
2000s 1.72 million ha 2.70 million ha 979,679 ha Romania
2010s 1.60 million ha 2.51 million ha 912,390 ha Romania
2020s 1.53 million ha 2.37 million ha 839,078 ha Romania

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher maize (corn) — area harvested, France or Romania?
Romania, at 2.11 million ha against 1.59 million ha in France as of 2024.
What is the difference in maize (corn) — area harvested between France and Romania?
517,100 ha, with Romania ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for France and Romania?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do France and Romania rank globally for maize (corn) — area harvested?
France ranks 24th and Romania ranks 21st 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.

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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
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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.