USSR vs Western Europe: Rice — Area harvested

USSR
599,400 ha
in 1991
Western Europe
13,480 ha
in 2024
USSR rank
23rd
Western Europe rank
26th

Rice — Area harvested over time

  • USSR
  • Western Europe
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How they compare

USSR currently reports 599,400 ha against 13,480 ha in Western Europe, a difference of 585,920 ha.

That makes USSR's figure about 44.5 times Western Europe's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, USSR has been ahead every year.

USSR ranks 23rd and Western Europe ranks 26th of 133 countries.

USSR has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade USSR Western Europe Difference Ahead
1960s 217,889 ha 28,437 ha 189,452 ha USSR
1970s 487,800 ha 13,730 ha 474,070 ha USSR
1980s 656,310 ha 10,022 ha 646,288 ha USSR
1990s 606,700 ha 20,998 ha 585,702 ha USSR

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher rice — area harvested, USSR or Western Europe?
USSR, at 599,400 ha against 13,480 ha in Western Europe as of 1991.
What is the difference in rice — area harvested between USSR and Western Europe?
585,920 ha, with USSR ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for USSR and Western Europe?
31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
How do USSR and Western Europe rank globally for rice — area harvested?
USSR ranks 23rd and Western Europe ranks 26th 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.