Melanesia vs Viet Nam: Potatoes — Area harvested
Potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Melanesia
- Viet Nam
How they compare
Viet Nam currently reports 20,733 ha against 523 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 20,210 ha.
That makes Viet Nam's figure about 39.6 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Viet Nam has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 16th and Viet Nam ranks 13th of 18 countries.
Viet Nam has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Viet Nam | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 205 ha | 3,889 ha | 3,684 ha | Viet Nam |
| 1970s | 439.3 ha | 30,222 ha | 29,783 ha | Viet Nam |
| 1980s | 361.5 ha | 44,174 ha | 43,812 ha | Viet Nam |
| 1990s | 244 ha | 31,897 ha | 31,653 ha | Viet Nam |
| 2000s | 352.2 ha | 33,701 ha | 33,349 ha | Viet Nam |
| 2010s | 414.8 ha | 23,547 ha | 23,132 ha | Viet Nam |
| 2020s | 509 ha | 19,846 ha | 19,337 ha | Viet Nam |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher potatoes — area harvested, Melanesia or Viet Nam?
- Viet Nam, at 20,733 ha against 523 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in potatoes — area harvested between Melanesia and Viet Nam?
- 20,210 ha, with Viet Nam ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Viet Nam?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Viet Nam rank globally for potatoes — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 16th and Viet Nam ranks 13th of 18 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.