Americas vs Australia and New Zealand: Rape or colza seed — Area harvested

Americas
10.41 million ha
in 2024
Australia and New Zealand
3.44 million ha
in 2024
Americas rank
2nd
Australia and New Zealand rank
5th

Rape or colza seed — Area harvested over time

  • Americas
  • Australia and New Zealand
02.5M5.0M7.5M10.0M196119922024

How they compare

Americas currently reports 10.41 million ha against 3.44 million ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 6.97 million ha.

That makes Americas's figure about 3.0 times Australia and New Zealand's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.

Americas ranks 2nd and Australia and New Zealand ranks 5th of 24 groups.

Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Americas Australia and New Zealand Difference Ahead
1960s 505,278 ha 961.33 ha 504,317 ha Americas
1970s 1.84 million ha 34,351 ha 1.81 million ha Americas
1980s 2.59 million ha 40,203 ha 2.55 million ha Americas
1990s 4.54 million ha 552,924 ha 3.99 million ha Americas
2000s 5.70 million ha 1.34 million ha 4.37 million ha Americas
2010s 9.22 million ha 2.55 million ha 6.67 million ha Americas
2020s 9.99 million ha 3.48 million ha 6.51 million ha Americas

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher rape or colza seed — area harvested, Americas or Australia and New Zealand?
Americas, at 10.41 million ha against 3.44 million ha in Australia and New Zealand as of 2024.
What is the difference in rape or colza seed — area harvested between Americas and Australia and New Zealand?
6.97 million ha, with Americas ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Australia and New Zealand?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Americas and Australia and New Zealand rank globally for rape or colza seed — area harvested?
Americas ranks 2nd and Australia and New Zealand ranks 5th of 24 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Rape or colza seed — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Rape or colza seed — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
98 places, 4,927 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.