Benin vs Nicaragua: Pulses, Total — Area harvested

Benin
240,526 ha
in 2024
Nicaragua
212,265 ha
in 2023
Benin rank
45th
Nicaragua rank
48th

Pulses, Total — Area harvested over time

  • Benin
  • Nicaragua
0100.0k200.0k300.0k196119922024

How they compare

Benin currently reports 240,526 ha against 212,265 ha in Nicaragua, a difference of 28,261 ha.

That makes Benin's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Benin ahead.

Benin ranks 45th and Nicaragua ranks 48th of 169 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Benin averaged higher in 3 and Nicaragua in 4.

Head to head by decade

Decade Benin Nicaragua Difference Ahead
1960s 91,531 ha 58,034 ha 33,497 ha Benin
1970s 74,230 ha 60,172 ha 14,058 ha Benin
1980s 86,800 ha 83,555 ha 3,245 ha Benin
1990s 115,923 ha 133,995 ha 18,072 ha Nicaragua
2000s 146,249 ha 244,100 ha 97,851 ha Nicaragua
2010s 142,285 ha 244,479 ha 102,194 ha Nicaragua
2020s 172,713 ha 235,232 ha 62,520 ha Nicaragua

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher pulses, total — area harvested, Benin or Nicaragua?
Benin, at 240,526 ha against 212,265 ha in Nicaragua as of 2024.
What is the difference in pulses, total — area harvested between Benin and Nicaragua?
28,261 ha, with Benin ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Nicaragua?
63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
How do Benin and Nicaragua rank globally for pulses, total — area harvested?
Benin ranks 45th and Nicaragua ranks 48th of 169 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Pulses, Total — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Pulses, Total — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
215 places, 12,296 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.