Southern Europe vs USSR: Plums and sloes — Area harvested

Southern Europe
158,249 ha
in 2024
USSR
260,000 ha
in 1991
Southern Europe rank
5th
USSR rank
3rd

Plums and sloes — Area harvested over time

  • Southern Europe
  • USSR
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How they compare

USSR currently reports 260,000 ha against 158,249 ha in Southern Europe, a difference of 101,751 ha.

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

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

Southern Europe ranks 5th and USSR ranks 3rd of 25 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Southern Europe USSR Difference Ahead
1960s 21,624 ha 158,222 ha 136,598 ha USSR
1970s 24,054 ha 235,400 ha 211,346 ha USSR
1980s 123,206 ha 256,500 ha 133,294 ha USSR
1990s 212,983 ha 275,000 ha 62,017 ha USSR

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher plums and sloes — area harvested, Southern Europe or USSR?
USSR, at 260,000 ha against 158,249 ha in Southern Europe as of 1991.
What is the difference in plums and sloes — area harvested between Southern Europe and USSR?
101,751 ha, with USSR 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 plums and sloes — area harvested?
Southern Europe ranks 5th and USSR ranks 3rd of 25 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Plums and sloes — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Plums and sloes — 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, 6,035 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.