Melanesia vs Western Asia: Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield
Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield over time
- Melanesia
- Western Asia
How they compare
Western Asia currently reports 29,632 kg/ha against 8,699 kg/ha in Melanesia, a difference of 20,933 kg/ha.
That makes Western Asia's figure about 3.4 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Western Asia has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 9th and Western Asia ranks 6th of 20 countries.
Western Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Western Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,085 kg/ha | 11,698 kg/ha | 4,613 kg/ha | Western Asia |
| 1970s | 7,282 kg/ha | 14,330 kg/ha | 7,047 kg/ha | Western Asia |
| 1980s | 7,488 kg/ha | 18,906 kg/ha | 11,418 kg/ha | Western Asia |
| 1990s | 7,472 kg/ha | 20,544 kg/ha | 13,072 kg/ha | Western Asia |
| 2000s | 7,948 kg/ha | 21,141 kg/ha | 13,193 kg/ha | Western Asia |
| 2010s | 8,316 kg/ha | 24,399 kg/ha | 16,084 kg/ha | Western Asia |
| 2020s | 8,543 kg/ha | 28,614 kg/ha | 20,071 kg/ha | Western Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher roots and tubers, total — yield, Melanesia or Western Asia?
- Western Asia, at 29,632 kg/ha against 8,699 kg/ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in roots and tubers, total — yield between Melanesia and Western Asia?
- 20,933 kg/ha, with Western Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Western Asia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Western Asia rank globally for roots and tubers, total — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 9th and Western Asia ranks 6th 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.