Australia vs Melanesia: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield over time
- Australia
- Melanesia
How they compare
Australia currently reports 40,838 kg/ha against 8,699 kg/ha in Melanesia, a difference of 32,139 kg/ha.
That makes Australia's figure about 4.7 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Australia has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 10th and Melanesia ranks 9th of 191 countries.
Australia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15,027 kg/ha | 7,085 kg/ha | 7,942 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1970s | 20,234 kg/ha | 7,282 kg/ha | 12,952 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1980s | 25,705 kg/ha | 7,488 kg/ha | 18,217 kg/ha | Australia |
| 1990s | 30,023 kg/ha | 7,472 kg/ha | 22,551 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2000s | 34,573 kg/ha | 7,948 kg/ha | 26,626 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2010s | 38,212 kg/ha | 8,316 kg/ha | 29,896 kg/ha | Australia |
| 2020s | 40,470 kg/ha | 8,543 kg/ha | 31,927 kg/ha | Australia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher roots and tubers, total — yield, Australia or Melanesia?
- Australia, at 40,838 kg/ha against 8,699 kg/ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in roots and tubers, total — yield between Australia and Melanesia?
- 32,139 kg/ha, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Australia and Melanesia rank globally for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Australia ranks 10th and Melanesia ranks 9th of 191 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield. 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.