Egypt vs Mali: Rice — Area harvested

Egypt
704,158 ha
in 2024
Mali
789,529 ha
in 2024
Egypt rank
20th
Mali rank
19th

Rice — Area harvested over time

  • Egypt
  • Mali
200.0k400.0k600.0k800.0k1.0M196119922024

How they compare

Mali currently reports 789,529 ha against 704,158 ha in Egypt, a difference of 85,371 ha.

That makes Mali's figure about 1.1 times Egypt's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Egypt ahead.

Egypt ranks 20th and Mali ranks 19th of 133 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Egypt averaged higher in 5 and Mali in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Egypt Mali Difference Ahead
1960s 394,889 ha 167,022 ha 227,867 ha Egypt
1970s 450,596 ha 182,181 ha 268,415 ha Egypt
1980s 406,733 ha 178,626 ha 228,108 ha Egypt
1990s 553,085 ha 283,812 ha 269,273 ha Egypt
2000s 646,015 ha 412,187 ha 233,828 ha Egypt
2010s 538,265 ha 739,652 ha 201,387 ha Mali
2020s 566,246 ha 871,344 ha 305,098 ha Mali

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher rice — area harvested, Egypt or Mali?
Mali, at 789,529 ha against 704,158 ha in Egypt as of 2024.
What is the difference in rice — area harvested between Egypt and Mali?
85,371 ha, with Mali ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and Mali?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Egypt and Mali rank globally for rice — area harvested?
Egypt ranks 20th and Mali ranks 19th 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

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.