Eastern Europe vs USSR: Rye — Area harvested

Eastern Europe
1.74 million ha
in 2024
USSR
8.58 million ha
in 1991
Eastern Europe rank
3rd
USSR rank
1st

Rye — Area harvested over time

  • Eastern Europe
  • USSR
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M25.0M196119922024

How they compare

USSR currently reports 8.58 million ha against 1.74 million ha in Eastern Europe, a difference of 6.83 million ha.

That makes USSR's figure about 4.9 times Eastern Europe's.

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

Eastern Europe ranks 3rd and USSR ranks 1st of 23 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Eastern Europe USSR Difference Ahead
1960s 19.51 million ha 14.34 million ha 5.16 million ha Eastern Europe
1970s 11.81 million ha 8.24 million ha 3.56 million ha Eastern Europe
1980s 12.72 million ha 9.46 million ha 3.26 million ha Eastern Europe
1990s 12.20 million ha 9.58 million ha 2.62 million ha Eastern Europe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher rye — area harvested, Eastern Europe or USSR?
USSR, at 8.58 million ha against 1.74 million ha in Eastern Europe as of 1991.
What is the difference in rye — area harvested between Eastern Europe and USSR?
6.83 million ha, with USSR ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Europe and USSR?
31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
How do Eastern Europe and USSR rank globally for rye — area harvested?
Eastern Europe ranks 3rd and USSR ranks 1st of 23 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Rye — 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
Rye — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
95 places, 4,865 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.