Malawi vs USSR: Sorghum — Area harvested
Sorghum — Area harvested over time
- Malawi
- USSR
How they compare
Malawi currently reports 96,872 ha against 86,000 ha in USSR, a difference of 10,872 ha.
That makes Malawi's figure about 1.1 times USSR's.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1961 it was USSR ahead.
Malawi ranks 37th and USSR ranks 38th of 120 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Malawi averaged higher in 2 and USSR in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Malawi | USSR | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 84,333 ha | 64,889 ha | 19,444 ha | Malawi |
| 1970s | 101,000 ha | 87,200 ha | 13,800 ha | Malawi |
| 1980s | 28,929 ha | 136,300 ha | 107,371 ha | USSR |
| 1990s | 30,924 ha | 100,000 ha | 69,076 ha | USSR |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sorghum — area harvested, Malawi or USSR?
- Malawi, at 96,872 ha against 86,000 ha in USSR as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sorghum — area harvested between Malawi and USSR?
- 10,872 ha, with Malawi ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Malawi and USSR?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
- How do Malawi and USSR rank globally for sorghum — area harvested?
- Malawi ranks 37th and USSR ranks 38th 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.