Americas vs Australia: Oats — Area harvested
Oats — Area harvested over time
- Americas
- Australia
How they compare
Americas currently reports 2.34 million ha against 742,000 ha in Australia, a difference of 1.60 million ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 3.2 times Australia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 3rd and Australia ranks 5th of 10 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Australia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12.02 million ha | 1.44 million ha | 10.58 million ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 8.36 million ha | 1.14 million ha | 7.22 million ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 5.36 million ha | 1.24 million ha | 4.12 million ha | Americas |
| 1990s | 3.56 million ha | 981,475 ha | 2.58 million ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 2.78 million ha | 922,021 ha | 1.86 million ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 2.16 million ha | 833,245 ha | 1.33 million ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 2.49 million ha | 752,986 ha | 1.73 million ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher oats — area harvested, Americas or Australia?
- Americas, at 2.34 million ha against 742,000 ha in Australia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in oats — area harvested between Americas and Australia?
- 1.60 million ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Australia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Australia rank globally for oats — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 3rd and Australia ranks 5th of 10 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Oats — 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.