Eastern Europe vs Melanesia: Sorghum — Yield
Sorghum — Yield over time
- Eastern Europe
- Melanesia
How they compare
Melanesia currently reports 4,424 kg/ha against 2,241 kg/ha in Eastern Europe, a difference of 2,183 kg/ha.
That makes Melanesia's figure about 2.0 times Eastern Europe's.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Melanesia ahead.
Eastern Europe ranks 13th and Melanesia ranks 4th of 33 groups.
Melanesia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Eastern Europe | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,195 kg/ha | 1,266 kg/ha | 70.9 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1970s | 1,406 kg/ha | 1,705 kg/ha | 299.29 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1980s | 1,262 kg/ha | 1,853 kg/ha | 591.08 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1990s | 1,240 kg/ha | 2,789 kg/ha | 1,549 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 1,547 kg/ha | 3,226 kg/ha | 1,680 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 2010s | 2,202 kg/ha | 3,653 kg/ha | 1,450 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 2020s | 2,346 kg/ha | 4,455 kg/ha | 2,108 kg/ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sorghum — yield, Eastern Europe or Melanesia?
- Melanesia, at 4,424 kg/ha against 2,241 kg/ha in Eastern Europe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sorghum — yield between Eastern Europe and Melanesia?
- 2,183 kg/ha, with Melanesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Europe and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Eastern Europe and Melanesia rank globally for sorghum — yield?
- Eastern Europe ranks 13th and Melanesia ranks 4th of 33 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sorghum — 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.