Costa Rica vs Uruguay: Potatoes — Area harvested
Potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Costa Rica
- Uruguay
How they compare
Uruguay currently reports 2,854 ha against 2,731 ha in Costa Rica, a difference of 123 ha.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Uruguay ahead.
Costa Rica ranks 117th and Uruguay ranks 115th of 153 countries.
Uruguay has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Costa Rica | Uruguay | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,850 ha | 21,959 ha | 20,109 ha | Uruguay |
| 1970s | 2,161 ha | 23,428 ha | 21,267 ha | Uruguay |
| 1980s | 2,790 ha | 18,827 ha | 16,036 ha | Uruguay |
| 1990s | 2,489 ha | 13,422 ha | 10,932 ha | Uruguay |
| 2000s | 3,029 ha | 8,471 ha | 5,442 ha | Uruguay |
| 2010s | 3,056 ha | 4,540 ha | 1,483 ha | Uruguay |
| 2020s | 2,925 ha | 3,427 ha | 502 ha | Uruguay |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — area harvested, Costa Rica or Uruguay?
- Uruguay, at 2,854 ha against 2,731 ha in Costa Rica as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — area harvested between Costa Rica and Uruguay?
- 123 ha, with Uruguay ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Uruguay?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Costa Rica and Uruguay rank globally for potatoes — area harvested?
- Costa Rica ranks 117th and Uruguay ranks 115th 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.