Italy vs Spain: Sugar beet — Area harvested
Sugar beet — Area harvested over time
- Italy
- Spain
How they compare
Spain currently reports 45,690 ha against 29,230 ha in Italy, a difference of 16,460 ha.
That makes Spain's figure about 1.6 times Italy's.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Italy ahead.
Italy ranks 24th and Spain ranks 21st of 68 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Italy averaged higher in 6 and Spain in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Italy | Spain | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 270,484 ha | 157,899 ha | 112,585 ha | Italy |
| 1970s | 259,698 ha | 210,530 ha | 49,168 ha | Italy |
| 1980s | 277,465 ha | 205,137 ha | 72,328 ha | Italy |
| 1990s | 281,425 ha | 163,193 ha | 118,232 ha | Italy |
| 2000s | 170,827 ha | 90,681 ha | 80,146 ha | Italy |
| 2010s | 44,392 ha | 36,971 ha | 7,421 ha | Italy |
| 2020s | 26,738 ha | 32,492 ha | 5,754 ha | Spain |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sugar beet — area harvested, Italy or Spain?
- Spain, at 45,690 ha against 29,230 ha in Italy as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sugar beet — area harvested between Italy and Spain?
- 16,460 ha, with Spain ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Italy and Spain?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Italy and Spain rank globally for sugar beet — area harvested?
- Italy ranks 24th and Spain ranks 21st of 68 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sugar beet — 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.