Egypt vs Melanesia: Potatoes — Area harvested
Potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Egypt
- Melanesia
How they compare
Egypt currently reports 268,565 ha against 523 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 268,042 ha.
That makes Egypt's figure about 513.5 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Egypt has been ahead every year.
Egypt ranks 14th and Melanesia ranks 16th of 153 countries.
Egypt has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Egypt | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24,197 ha | 205 ha | 23,992 ha | Egypt |
| 1970s | 45,414 ha | 439.3 ha | 44,975 ha | Egypt |
| 1980s | 70,903 ha | 361.5 ha | 70,542 ha | Egypt |
| 1990s | 88,921 ha | 244 ha | 88,677 ha | Egypt |
| 2000s | 102,706 ha | 352.2 ha | 102,354 ha | Egypt |
| 2010s | 167,943 ha | 414.8 ha | 167,528 ha | Egypt |
| 2020s | 254,756 ha | 509 ha | 254,247 ha | Egypt |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — area harvested, Egypt or Melanesia?
- Egypt, at 268,565 ha against 523 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — area harvested between Egypt and Melanesia?
- 268,042 ha, with Egypt ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Egypt and Melanesia rank globally for potatoes — area harvested?
- Egypt ranks 14th and Melanesia 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.