Benin vs Cameroon: Rice — Area harvested
Rice — Area harvested over time
- Benin
- Cameroon
How they compare
Cameroon currently reports 160,000 ha against 128,501 ha in Benin, a difference of 31,499 ha.
That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.2 times Benin's.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Cameroon ahead.
Benin ranks 45th and Cameroon ranks 42nd of 133 countries.
Cameroon has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Benin | Cameroon | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,214 ha | 12,557 ha | 10,342 ha | Cameroon |
| 1970s | 6,552 ha | 21,806 ha | 15,255 ha | Cameroon |
| 1980s | 7,089 ha | 18,510 ha | 11,421 ha | Cameroon |
| 1990s | 11,087 ha | 12,651 ha | 1,564 ha | Cameroon |
| 2000s | 28,278 ha | 44,513 ha | 16,235 ha | Cameroon |
| 2010s | 81,740 ha | 144,607 ha | 62,867 ha | Cameroon |
| 2020s | 125,344 ha | 152,772 ha | 27,428 ha | Cameroon |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher rice — area harvested, Benin or Cameroon?
- Cameroon, at 160,000 ha against 128,501 ha in Benin as of 2024.
- What is the difference in rice — area harvested between Benin and Cameroon?
- 31,499 ha, with Cameroon ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Cameroon?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Benin and Cameroon rank globally for rice — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 45th and Cameroon ranks 42nd of 133 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.