Brazil vs Central America: Potatoes — Area harvested
Potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Brazil
- Central America
How they compare
Brazil currently reports 124,818 ha against 95,876 ha in Central America, a difference of 28,942 ha.
That makes Brazil's figure about 1.3 times Central America's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Brazil has been ahead every year.
Brazil ranks 24th and Central America ranks 24th of 153 countries.
Brazil has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brazil | Central America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 206,964 ha | 53,355 ha | 153,609 ha | Brazil |
| 1970s | 200,765 ha | 72,686 ha | 128,079 ha | Brazil |
| 1980s | 169,872 ha | 88,633 ha | 81,239 ha | Brazil |
| 1990s | 169,778 ha | 83,982 ha | 85,796 ha | Brazil |
| 2000s | 147,576 ha | 86,246 ha | 61,331 ha | Brazil |
| 2010s | 129,870 ha | 89,976 ha | 39,893 ha | Brazil |
| 2020s | 120,132 ha | 93,885 ha | 26,247 ha | Brazil |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — area harvested, Brazil or Central America?
- Brazil, at 124,818 ha against 95,876 ha in Central America as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — area harvested between Brazil and Central America?
- 28,942 ha, with Brazil ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Central America?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Brazil and Central America rank globally for potatoes — area harvested?
- Brazil ranks 24th and Central America ranks 24th of 153 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Potatoes — 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.