Ghana vs Rwanda: Pulses, Total — Area harvested

Ghana
600,460 ha
in 2024
Rwanda
679,510 ha
in 2024
Ghana rank
30th
Rwanda rank
28th

Pulses, Total — Area harvested over time

  • Ghana
  • Rwanda
0200.0k400.0k600.0k800.0k196119922024

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 679,510 ha against 600,460 ha in Ghana, a difference of 79,050 ha.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.1 times Ghana's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Rwanda ahead.

Ghana ranks 30th and Rwanda ranks 28th of 169 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Ghana averaged higher in 1 and Rwanda in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade Ghana Rwanda Difference Ahead
1960s 80,333 ha 192,243 ha 111,910 ha Rwanda
1970s 138,900 ha 258,457 ha 119,557 ha Rwanda
1980s 147,800 ha 334,265 ha 186,465 ha Rwanda
1990s 149,510 ha 238,903 ha 89,393 ha Rwanda
2000s 353,375 ha 376,922 ha 23,547 ha Rwanda
2010s 562,356 ha 512,209 ha 50,147 ha Ghana
2020s 590,421 ha 671,342 ha 80,921 ha Rwanda

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher pulses, total — area harvested, Ghana or Rwanda?
Rwanda, at 679,510 ha against 600,460 ha in Ghana as of 2024.
What is the difference in pulses, total — area harvested between Ghana and Rwanda?
79,050 ha, with Rwanda ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Ghana and Rwanda?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Ghana and Rwanda rank globally for pulses, total — area harvested?
Ghana ranks 30th and Rwanda ranks 28th 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
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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.