Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) vs South Africa: Soya beans — Area harvested

Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
6.48 million ha
in 2024
South Africa
1.15 million ha
in 2024
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) rank
10th
South Africa rank
10th

Soya beans — Area harvested over time

  • Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
  • South Africa
02.0M4.0M6.0M8.0M196119922024

How they compare

Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) currently reports 6.48 million ha against 1.15 million ha in South Africa, a difference of 5.33 million ha.

That makes Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)'s figure about 5.6 times South Africa's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) has been ahead every year.

Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 10th and South Africa ranks 10th of 27 groups.

Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) South Africa Difference Ahead
1960s 21,229 ha 8,133 ha 13,096 ha Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
1970s 203,971 ha 17,356 ha 186,614 ha Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
1980s 776,111 ha 30,730 ha 745,381 ha Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
1990s 1.39 million ha 79,150 ha 1.31 million ha Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
2000s 3.09 million ha 156,394 ha 2.93 million ha Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
2010s 5.22 million ha 550,260 ha 4.67 million ha Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
2020s 6.47 million ha 951,240 ha 5.52 million ha Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher soya beans — area harvested, Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) or South Africa?
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), at 6.48 million ha against 1.15 million ha in South Africa as of 2024.
What is the difference in soya beans — area harvested between Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and South Africa?
5.33 million ha, with Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and South Africa?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and South Africa rank globally for soya beans — area harvested?
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 10th and South Africa ranks 10th of 27 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Soya beans — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) vs South Africa: Soya beans — Area harvested. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 30 September 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/soya-beans-area-harvested/land-locked-developing-countries-lldcs/south-africa/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/soya-beans-area-harvested/land-locked-developing-countries-lldcs/south-africa/">Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) vs South Africa: Soya beans — Area harvested</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Soya beans — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
151 places, 7,582 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.