Botswana vs Thailand: Sorghum — Area harvested
Sorghum — Area harvested over time
- Botswana
- Thailand
How they compare
Thailand currently reports 27,000 ha against 22,646 ha in Botswana, a difference of 4,354 ha.
That makes Thailand's figure about 1.2 times Botswana's.
The two have swapped places 13 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Botswana ahead.
Botswana ranks 55th and Thailand ranks 52nd of 120 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Botswana averaged higher in 3 and Thailand in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Botswana | Thailand | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 79,408 ha | 23,490 ha | 55,918 ha | Botswana |
| 1970s | 91,618 ha | 118,909 ha | 27,291 ha | Thailand |
| 1980s | 111,280 ha | 225,753 ha | 114,473 ha | Thailand |
| 1990s | 95,497 ha | 142,679 ha | 47,182 ha | Thailand |
| 2000s | 49,430 ha | 49,456 ha | 26.8 ha | Thailand |
| 2010s | 58,672 ha | 23,390 ha | 35,282 ha | Botswana |
| 2020s | 40,025 ha | 27,000 ha | 13,025 ha | Botswana |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sorghum — area harvested, Botswana or Thailand?
- Thailand, at 27,000 ha against 22,646 ha in Botswana as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sorghum — area harvested between Botswana and Thailand?
- 4,354 ha, with Thailand ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Botswana and Thailand?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Botswana and Thailand rank globally for sorghum — area harvested?
- Botswana ranks 55th and Thailand ranks 52nd of 120 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sorghum — Area harvested. 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.