Southern Europe vs USSR: Peaches and nectarines — Area harvested

Southern Europe
171,637 ha
in 2024
USSR
108,000 ha
in 1991
Southern Europe rank
5th
USSR rank
3rd

Peaches and nectarines — Area harvested over time

  • Southern Europe
  • USSR
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How they compare

Southern Europe currently reports 171,637 ha against 108,000 ha in USSR, a difference of 63,637 ha.

That makes Southern Europe's figure about 1.6 times USSR's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Southern Europe has been ahead every year.

Southern Europe ranks 5th and USSR ranks 3rd of 24 groups.

Southern Europe has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Southern Europe USSR Difference Ahead
1960s 142,032 ha 41,667 ha 100,366 ha Southern Europe
1970s 169,357 ha 119,200 ha 50,157 ha Southern Europe
1980s 196,352 ha 106,400 ha 89,952 ha Southern Europe
1990s 248,764 ha 112,500 ha 136,264 ha Southern Europe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher peaches and nectarines — area harvested, Southern Europe or USSR?
Southern Europe, at 171,637 ha against 108,000 ha in USSR as of 2024.
What is the difference in peaches and nectarines — area harvested between Southern Europe and USSR?
63,637 ha, with Southern Europe ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Southern Europe and USSR?
31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
How do Southern Europe and USSR rank globally for peaches and nectarines — area harvested?
Southern Europe ranks 5th and USSR ranks 3rd of 24 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Peaches and nectarines — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Peaches and nectarines — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
125 places, 5,716 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.