Egypt vs USSR: Rice — Area harvested
Rice — Area harvested over time
- Egypt
- USSR
How they compare
Egypt currently reports 704,158 ha against 599,400 ha in USSR, a difference of 104,758 ha.
That makes Egypt's figure about 1.2 times USSR's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Egypt ahead.
Egypt ranks 20th and USSR ranks 23rd of 133 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Egypt averaged higher in 1 and USSR in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Egypt | USSR | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 394,889 ha | 217,889 ha | 177,000 ha | Egypt |
| 1970s | 450,596 ha | 487,800 ha | 37,204 ha | USSR |
| 1980s | 406,733 ha | 656,310 ha | 249,577 ha | USSR |
| 1990s | 449,183 ha | 606,700 ha | 157,517 ha | USSR |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher rice — area harvested, Egypt or USSR?
- Egypt, at 704,158 ha against 599,400 ha in USSR as of 2024.
- What is the difference in rice — area harvested between Egypt and USSR?
- 104,758 ha, with Egypt ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and USSR?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
- How do Egypt and USSR rank globally for rice — area harvested?
- Egypt ranks 20th and USSR ranks 23rd 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.