Japan vs Southern Asia: Sugar beet — Area harvested
Sugar beet — Area harvested over time
- Japan
- Southern Asia
How they compare
Southern Asia currently reports 85,941 ha against 48,900 ha in Japan, a difference of 37,041 ha.
That makes Southern Asia's figure about 1.8 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Southern Asia ahead.
Japan ranks 19th and Southern Asia ranks 16th of 68 countries.
Southern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Southern Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 54,933 ha | 100,799 ha | 45,866 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1970s | 53,200 ha | 181,706 ha | 128,506 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1980s | 71,634 ha | 168,863 ha | 97,229 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1990s | 70,275 ha | 190,166 ha | 119,891 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2000s | 66,970 ha | 152,727 ha | 85,757 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2010s | 58,870 ha | 103,888 ha | 45,018 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2020s | 54,000 ha | 92,199 ha | 38,199 ha | Southern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sugar beet — area harvested, Japan or Southern Asia?
- Southern Asia, at 85,941 ha against 48,900 ha in Japan as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sugar beet — area harvested between Japan and Southern Asia?
- 37,041 ha, with Southern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Southern Asia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Japan and Southern Asia rank globally for sugar beet — area harvested?
- Japan ranks 19th and Southern Asia ranks 16th 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.