Japan vs Malawi: Potatoes — Area harvested
Potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Japan
- Malawi
How they compare
Malawi currently reports 75,977 ha against 69,221 ha in Japan, a difference of 6,756 ha.
That makes Malawi's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.
Japan ranks 34th and Malawi ranks 32nd of 153 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 4 and Malawi in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Malawi | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 202,389 ha | 11,111 ha | 191,278 ha | Japan |
| 1970s | 141,446 ha | 28,700 ha | 112,746 ha | Japan |
| 1980s | 126,708 ha | 39,603 ha | 87,105 ha | Japan |
| 1990s | 107,290 ha | 75,602 ha | 31,687 ha | Japan |
| 2000s | 88,120 ha | 176,614 ha | 88,494 ha | Malawi |
| 2010s | 78,260 ha | 134,299 ha | 56,039 ha | Malawi |
| 2020s | 70,924 ha | 76,684 ha | 5,760 ha | Malawi |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — area harvested, Japan or Malawi?
- Malawi, at 75,977 ha against 69,221 ha in Japan as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — area harvested between Japan and Malawi?
- 6,756 ha, with Malawi ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Malawi?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Japan and Malawi rank globally for potatoes — area harvested?
- Japan ranks 34th and Malawi ranks 32nd 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.