Egypt vs France: Potatoes — Area harvested
Potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Egypt
- France
How they compare
Egypt currently reports 268,565 ha against 217,680 ha in France, a difference of 50,885 ha.
That makes Egypt's figure about 1.2 times France's.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was France ahead.
Egypt ranks 14th and France ranks 16th of 153 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Egypt averaged higher in 1 and France in 6.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Egypt | France | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24,197 ha | 645,138 ha | 620,941 ha | France |
| 1970s | 45,414 ha | 307,090 ha | 261,676 ha | France |
| 1980s | 70,903 ha | 216,000 ha | 145,097 ha | France |
| 1990s | 88,921 ha | 165,153 ha | 76,232 ha | France |
| 2000s | 102,706 ha | 159,622 ha | 56,915 ha | France |
| 2010s | 167,943 ha | 174,696 ha | 6,753 ha | France |
| 2020s | 254,756 ha | 212,274 ha | 42,482 ha | Egypt |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — area harvested, Egypt or France?
- Egypt, at 268,565 ha against 217,680 ha in France as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — area harvested between Egypt and France?
- 50,885 ha, with Egypt ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and France?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Egypt and France rank globally for potatoes — area harvested?
- Egypt ranks 14th and France ranks 16th 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.