Guinea vs Sierra Leone: Sorghum — Area harvested
Sorghum — Area harvested over time
- Guinea
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
Sierra Leone currently reports 60,000 ha against 45,000 ha in Guinea, a difference of 15,000 ha.
That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.3 times Guinea's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Guinea ahead.
Guinea ranks 45th and Sierra Leone ranks 42nd of 120 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Guinea averaged higher in 4 and Sierra Leone in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Guinea | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 20,000 ha | 6,498 ha | 13,502 ha | Guinea |
| 1970s | 20,000 ha | 5,785 ha | 14,215 ha | Guinea |
| 1980s | 19,714 ha | 15,200 ha | 4,514 ha | Guinea |
| 1990s | 21,446 ha | 30,365 ha | 8,918 ha | Sierra Leone |
| 2000s | 35,925 ha | 19,632 ha | 16,293 ha | Guinea |
| 2010s | 35,564 ha | 40,672 ha | 5,108 ha | Sierra Leone |
| 2020s | 43,885 ha | 64,294 ha | 20,409 ha | Sierra Leone |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sorghum — area harvested, Guinea or Sierra Leone?
- Sierra Leone, at 60,000 ha against 45,000 ha in Guinea as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sorghum — area harvested between Guinea and Sierra Leone?
- 15,000 ha, with Sierra Leone ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Guinea and Sierra Leone?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Guinea and Sierra Leone rank globally for sorghum — area harvested?
- Guinea ranks 45th and Sierra Leone ranks 42nd 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.