Belize vs Melanesia: Rice — Area harvested
Rice — Area harvested over time
- Belize
- Melanesia
How they compare
Melanesia currently reports 4,751 ha against 3,460 ha in Belize, a difference of 1,291 ha.
That makes Melanesia's figure about 1.4 times Belize's.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Melanesia ahead.
Belize ranks 99th and Melanesia ranks 98th of 146 countries.
Melanesia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Belize | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,699 ha | 11,023 ha | 9,325 ha | Melanesia |
| 1970s | 3,314 ha | 10,973 ha | 7,658 ha | Melanesia |
| 1980s | 2,742 ha | 13,120 ha | 10,378 ha | Melanesia |
| 1990s | 4,534 ha | 9,882 ha | 5,348 ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 3,846 ha | 6,824 ha | 2,978 ha | Melanesia |
| 2010s | 3,470 ha | 4,077 ha | 607.8 ha | Melanesia |
| 2020s | 3,050 ha | 4,478 ha | 1,428 ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher rice — area harvested, Belize or Melanesia?
- Melanesia, at 4,751 ha against 3,460 ha in Belize as of 2024.
- What is the difference in rice — area harvested between Belize and Melanesia?
- 1,291 ha, with Melanesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Belize and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Belize and Melanesia rank globally for rice — area harvested?
- Belize ranks 99th and Melanesia ranks 98th of 146 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Rice — 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.