Melanesia vs Middle Africa: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield over time
- Melanesia
- Middle Africa
How they compare
Melanesia currently reports 8,699 kg/ha against 8,676 kg/ha in Middle Africa, a difference of 23 kg/ha.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Melanesia ahead.
Melanesia ranks 9th and Middle Africa ranks 10th of 20 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Melanesia averaged higher in 5 and Middle Africa in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Middle Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,085 kg/ha | 5,389 kg/ha | 1,696 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1970s | 7,282 kg/ha | 5,518 kg/ha | 1,764 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1980s | 7,488 kg/ha | 6,509 kg/ha | 978.93 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1990s | 7,472 kg/ha | 7,049 kg/ha | 422.86 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 7,948 kg/ha | 8,103 kg/ha | 155.59 kg/ha | Middle Africa |
| 2010s | 8,316 kg/ha | 8,606 kg/ha | 290.24 kg/ha | Middle Africa |
| 2020s | 8,543 kg/ha | 8,486 kg/ha | 56.4 kg/ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher roots and tubers, total — yield, Melanesia or Middle Africa?
- Melanesia, at 8,699 kg/ha against 8,676 kg/ha in Middle Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in roots and tubers, total — yield between Melanesia and Middle Africa?
- 23 kg/ha, with Melanesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Middle Africa?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Middle Africa rank globally for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 9th and Middle Africa ranks 10th of 20 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.