Caribbean vs Sierra Leone: Rice — Area harvested

Caribbean
281,862 ha
in 2024
Sierra Leone
987,345 ha
in 2024
Caribbean rank
20th
Sierra Leone rank
18th

Rice — Area harvested over time

  • Caribbean
  • Sierra Leone
250.0k500.0k750.0k1.0M1.2M196119922024

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 987,345 ha against 281,862 ha in Caribbean, a difference of 705,483 ha.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 3.5 times Caribbean's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Caribbean ranks 20th and Sierra Leone ranks 18th of 28 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Caribbean averaged higher in 1 and Sierra Leone in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade Caribbean Sierra Leone Difference Ahead
1960s 206,999 ha 297,118 ha 90,119 ha Sierra Leone
1970s 313,871 ha 376,681 ha 62,810 ha Sierra Leone
1980s 319,169 ha 372,700 ha 53,532 ha Sierra Leone
1990s 328,227 ha 320,812 ha 7,416 ha Caribbean
2000s 377,263 ha 468,227 ha 90,964 ha Sierra Leone
2010s 397,004 ha 720,598 ha 323,594 ha Sierra Leone
2020s 299,290 ha 814,066 ha 514,776 ha Sierra Leone

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher rice — area harvested, Caribbean or Sierra Leone?
Sierra Leone, at 987,345 ha against 281,862 ha in Caribbean as of 2024.
What is the difference in rice — area harvested between Caribbean and Sierra Leone?
705,483 ha, with Sierra Leone ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Caribbean and Sierra Leone?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Caribbean and Sierra Leone rank globally for rice — area harvested?
Caribbean ranks 20th and Sierra Leone ranks 18th of 28 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

Indicator
Rice — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
179 places, 9,589 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.