Malawi vs Panama: Rice — Area harvested

Malawi
80,100 ha
in 2024
Panama
86,717 ha
in 2024
Malawi rank
65th
Panama rank
62nd

Rice — Area harvested over time

  • Malawi
  • Panama
050.0k100.0k150.0k196119922024

How they compare

Panama currently reports 86,717 ha against 80,100 ha in Malawi, a difference of 6,617 ha.

That makes Panama's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Panama has been ahead every year.

Malawi ranks 65th and Panama ranks 62nd of 146 countries.

Panama has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Malawi Panama Difference Ahead
1960s 10,390 ha 119,167 ha 108,777 ha Panama
1970s 39,760 ha 105,246 ha 65,486 ha Panama
1980s 24,055 ha 90,914 ha 66,859 ha Panama
1990s 34,855 ha 90,493 ha 55,638 ha Panama
2000s 53,286 ha 106,134 ha 52,848 ha Panama
2010s 63,233 ha 92,996 ha 29,764 ha Panama
2020s 76,750 ha 93,392 ha 16,642 ha Panama

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher rice — area harvested, Malawi or Panama?
Panama, at 86,717 ha against 80,100 ha in Malawi as of 2024.
What is the difference in rice — area harvested between Malawi and Panama?
6,617 ha, with Panama ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Malawi and Panama?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Malawi and Panama rank globally for rice — area harvested?
Malawi ranks 65th and Panama ranks 62nd 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

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.